Fwd: Re: status of openssh for solaris?

[Damien Miller]

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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Tor-Ake Fransson wrote:

> Regarding /tmp/random:
> 
> Someone has made the same quick&dirty fix as my AIX compile fix, for
> a lack of /dev/urandom.
>
> ssh expects some random bytes to be available in that file. I,
> or someone else should probably create a more portable way of
> generating entropy. ;)

This one was my stupidity - EGD uses an AF_UNIX socket and not a
named pipe, so simply open()ing the endpoint is not sufficient. This
too is fixed in 1.2pre13.

The EGD code and operation on Solaris still need a lot of testing. 
Unfortunatly I have to rely on other people to do that as I do not
have access to a Solaris box.

Regards,
Damien

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