Hi Simon
Thanks heaps for the response. Ran the strace and you were correct problem seems to be the blocking on /dev/random, /dev/urandom is fine (as you would expect seeing as it exists to avoid blocking issues). I can do a quick and dirty work around by deleting /dev/random and sym-linking /dev/random to /dev/urandom this will last until the machine is rebooted so I can add principals, keys, passwords etc. Regards Xris On Jan 31, 2008 8:39 PM, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Xris Brunton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > I have just installed shishi on my Ubuntu server and every time I type > any > > command in shisa other than 'shisa -V' or 'shisa -h' it just seems to > hang > > and gives no response (verbose has been of no use either). It did this > with > > the official Ubuntu packages and then also when they were removed and > > 0.34compiled and installed. The shishi daemon is definitely runinng > > and I have > > been through all the instructions to no avail. Is this a bug or am I > just > > doing something stupid. > > Hi! Thanks for your interest. > > I've seen that too, and the reason has been that a read from /dev/random > or /dev/urandom blocks. Use 'strace shishi' to find out if this is > indeed the case. > > It may also be blocking DNS requests, to find out the Kerberos server > for a poorly guessed domain. Try 'shishi -v' to get some more > information on what Shishi is doing. However, this should time out > relatively fast, whereas blocking /dev/*random may block for a long > time. > > It has been suggested that applications should use a libgcrypt random > seeds file. The Shishi command line tools could implement that, but I'm > less sure how it would work for a library. More investigation is needed > here... > > /Simon > -- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. - Scott Adams
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