From 3ffb3db7b629ea2dc84e0fcbef9f2b0725714bee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bwarsaw <>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:02:57 +0000
Subject: Secure_MakeRandomPassword(): Log an error when secure passwords were
 requested but urandom is not available.

---
 Mailman/Utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Mailman')

diff --git a/Mailman/Utils.py b/Mailman/Utils.py
index a6e07e10..18b1c468 100644
--- a/Mailman/Utils.py
+++ b/Mailman/Utils.py
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ def Secure_MakeRandomPassword(length):
                         # We have no available source of cryptographically
                         # secure random characters.  Log an error and fallback
                         # to the user friendly passwords.
+                        from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
+                        syslog('error',
+                               'urandom not available, passwords not secure')
                         return UserFriendly_MakeRandomPassword(length)
                 newbytes = os.read(fd, length - bytesread)
             bytes.append(newbytes)
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