APOP No Longer Working after Upgrade to IMAPd 2.3.12p2

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Rudy Gevaert wrote:

> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>> 
>> Cyrus IMAP calls out to the sasl libraries to generate the APOP challenge. 
>> On my Debian Etch system, libsasl2.so uses /dev/random.
>
> That is strange!  sasl in Debian Etch is compiled against /dev/urandom. And 
> so my system confirms:
>
> cyrus:/usr/lib# strings libsasl2.* | grep random
> /dev/urandom
> /dev/urandom
> /dev/urandom
> /dev/urandom

Ooops!  And that would be true if I had ran that command on my Debian Etch 
system instead of my old Debian Sarge system...  :)

For the record:

Debian Sarge sasl uses /dev/random
Debian Etch sasl uses /dev/urandom

 	Andy