Red Hat Enterprise 6 and libcurl

[Scott Koranda]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Brian Reindel <brian at reindel.com> wrote:
> This is related to this issue:
>
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPLinuxRH6
>
> We run Red Hat Enterprise 6.4, and recently installed the SP in our
> dev environment.
>
> shibd -t shows me this when I start Apache:
>
> 2013-09-12 17:23:25 ERROR XMLTooling.libcurl.InputStream : error while
> fetching [my metadata url]: (59) Unknown cipher in list:
> ALL:!aNULL:!LOW:!EXPORT:!SSLv2
> 2013-09-12 17:23:25 ERROR XMLTooling.libcurl.InputStream : on Red Hat
> 6+, make sure libcurl used is built with OpenSSL
>
> I'm confused by the wiki, and this statement:
>
> "The /etc/init.d/shibd script installed for you will also include a
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable that directs the shibd process to load the
> alternative version of libcurl.so instead of the normal one."
>
> I viewed the shibd script and I see no LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, but
> the wiki seems to indicate I shouldn't have to make any changes.
>
> What might I be missing?
>

On a RHEL 6.x system the file

/etc/sysconfig/shibd

contains the definition for LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That file is sourced from
/etc/init.d/shibd.

Scott K