sasl ldap problem

Divan Santana <Divan.Santanagmail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I am glad to contribute this fix back. I hope someone
finds it useful.
> I think it might be kubuntu specific.
>
> http://www.kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-users/2
006-February/004394.html
> mv /dev/random /dev/random.backup
> ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
>
> Can't believe that fixed it. I don't quite understand
but at least its 
> working.

Basically you run out of entropy which leads to a hanging
system if an
application needs real random numbers (for key generation
etc.). What
you do by exchanging /dev/random with /dev/urandom is to use
generated
random numbers which could be guessed after an attaker
collected
enough data. Still unlikely though ;)

You should also be able to use the rngd daemon from the
gkernel
project (http://sourc
eforge.net/projects/gkernel/).

>> Nov 16 13:10:01 tmgmen-bbb <debug>
saslauthd[21428]: Domain/Realm not
>> available.
>> Nov 16 13:10:13 tmgmen-bbb <debug>
saslauthd[21441]: ldap_simple_bind()
>> failed -1 (Can't contact LDAP server).

> Now POP doesn't time out randomly etc.

The workaround fixes the ldap_simple_bind() problem also or
is it just
the POP3 problem that gets fixed?

Cheers,

Gunnar

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