I wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@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