Note on Cyrus-SASL when testing

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

Latest cyrus-sasl 2.1.25 introduces a new mechanism called SCRAM.  Unlike 
the other mechanisms, SCRAM generates entropy as soon as the cyrus-sasl 
library is loaded.  This is a problem because cyrus-sasl defaults to using 
/dev/random instead of /dev/urandom when it loads up.  I was having 
numerous test failures until gdb'ing slapd and finding it was stuck 
initializing SCRAM while starting up.

If you rebuild cyrus-sasl to use /dev/urandom (They thankfully have a 
configure switch for it), things'll work a lot more smoothly.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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