[35948] in Kerberos
Re: kadmind problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Fri Mar 28 22:12:01 2014
To: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:11:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: <87fvm1n5mq.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of
"Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:41:17 -0700")
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Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> writes:
> I suspect your system has no entropy and it's blocking trying to read
> /dev/random. Check /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail while it's
> starting up. If this is near-zero, that's probably the issue.
Also you can use the '-W' switch to kadmind to allow it to read from
the nonblocking /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, if that fits your
risk profile.
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