Bug 498542

Summary: need mod_nss "forking model" code in the RHEL version
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Christina Fu <cfu>
Component: mod_nssAssignee: Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Version: 5.5CC: benl, dpal, kchamart, kwright, mharmsen
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Description Christina Fu 2009-04-30 23:48:52 UTC 
urgent customer request to have mod_nss work with nethsm 2000 hardware accelerator.

Found the mod_nss version on Fedora having the exact fix we need: the "NSS forking model."
Porting the code onto RHEL will resolve this urgent issue (have tested that with my own build).
See the following bug for more detail:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496342

Because of the urgency, we need it spun on Brew for RHCS8.0 early delivery (beta2) early next week.
Comment 4 Rob Crittenden 2009-05-04 19:10:46 UTC 
build complete
Comment 7 Kashyap Chamarthy 2010-10-28 18:27:14 UTC 
Some Notes from rcrit:
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mod_nss 1.0.3 initialized NSS and then forked its child listeners. This was
allowed by older NSS versions but was not the correct thing to do under the
PKCS#11 spec and therefore broke in some hardware readers which enforced the
spec.

mod_nss 1.0.8 initializes NSS after forking each child.

So you basically just need to test that mod_nss still works. If you have access
to a hardware device testing that you can use keys/certs stored on that with
mod_nss would be a good way to test too.

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Comment 8 Kashyap Chamarthy 2010-10-31 18:29:56 UTC 
Verified:
RHEL5.6(x86_64, i386)
Version: mod_nss-1.0.8-2.el5.x86_64.rpm

mod_nss does work fine with the new build

Successful run of beaker auto tests -- https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/27209
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:38:25 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0049.html