I wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: >> So I'm a bit surprised that it's taking 4 minutes for you. I wonder if >> there might be an issue related to the KDC wanting to get some amount of >> random data and the system you're on isn't producing random bytes very >> fast..?
> Not sure. This is my usual development box and it also does mail, DNS, > etc for my household, so I'd expect it to have plenty of entropy. > But it's running a pretty old kernel, and old Kerberos too, so maybe > the explanation is in there somewhere. Same test on a laptop running Fedora 28 takes a shade under 5 seconds. The laptop has a somewhat better geekbench rating than my workstation, but certainly not 50x better. And I really doubt it's got more entropy sources than the workstation. Gotta be something about the kernel. Watching the test logs, I see that essentially all the time on the RHEL6 machine is consumed by the two # Running: /usr/sbin/kdb5_util create -s -P secret0 steps. Is there a case for merging the two scripts so we only have to do that once? Maybe not, if nobody else sees this. regards, tom lane