[users@httpd] Issue with mod_auth_digest

[Soumendu Bhattacharya <So...@headstrong.com>]

Hi ,

                                I am facing an issue with existing apache
instances on hp unix. Looks like mod_auth_digest is failing to generate
secret for Digest . It fails with the following error :

 

[Thu Oct 01 03:19:45 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
authentication ...

[Thu Oct 01 03:19:45 2009] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: Digest:
error generating secret: No such file or directory

Configuration Failed

 

The httpd process completely dies off after giving this error. This works
fine if I disable mod_auth_digest, but am in favour of understanding the
issue and rather than trying this route (to disable mod_auth_digest). 

 

On trying to google out , it seems people did face similar issues when they
didn't have /dev/random or /dev/urandom device files but these are already
present on the system. 

 

crw-r--r--   1 root       root       115 0x000001 Sep 26 10:14 /dev/urandom

crw-r--r--   1 root       root       115 0x000000 Sep 26 10:14 /dev/random

 

 

The process is started as root and then uses application user (user = xxxx ,
group = xxxx). 

 

The server team is not able to help much about this and this is becoming a
critical issue for us.  

 

These instances were all working fine before an upgrade was done (openssl
and something else which the server team is not revealing). 

 

The apache version being used is 2.2.11 on HP Unix 11.23.  

 

I am also attaching the tusc trace for this. 

 

Would really appreciate if someone will be able to help me with this. 

 

 

Regards

 

Soumendu