krb5.conf and KDC protocol

Thursday, 08. 9. 2007  –  Category: all, sw

FreeBSD lets you do this:
[realms]
FOO.FOOCORP.CO.UK = {
kdc = tcp/kdc.foo.foocorp.co.uk
}
Linux doesn’t let you specify the protocol, and will bork in a typically Kerberosly weird [...]

Debian / Ubuntu Exim wedging?

Tuesday, 08. 7. 2007  –  Category: all, sw

Is it doing TLS?
It’s likely running out of entropy. Debian package Exim linked against GNU’s TLS library, rather than the more common OpenSSL. It’ll suck /dev/random dry very quickly.
Lousy under-the-gun hack:
root@shangrila:/dev# rm random && mknod -m 664 /dev/random c 1 9
root@shangrila:/dev# ls -l /dev/*random
crw-rw-r– 1 root root 1, 9 Aug 7 17:39 /dev/random
crw-rw-rw- 1 [...]