Re: SSH installation - PRNG is not seeded

From: Colin B. (cbigam_at_somewhereelse.nucleus.com)
Date: 04/15/05 

Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:20:31 GMT

Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@sun.com> wrote:
> "NewBie" <leongyc@tp.edu.sg> writes:
>
>>I have installed the package openssh-4.0p1-sol8-sparc-local and when I
>>started ssh daemon, the console gave PRNG is not seeded.
>
> Remove PRNG, Install the /dev/random patch:
>
> 112438-03: SunOS 5.8: /kernel/drv/random patch
> 112439-02: SunOS 5.8_x86: /kernel/drv/random patch
>
> (It exists in S9 and later)

As a totally unrelated comment...

Just noticed that this patch is NOT bundled, which presumably means that
the /dev/random devices will be unavailable to Solaris 8 users with no
contract.

I'm getting less and less impressed with Sun's new support model.

Colin

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