Openssh

[Richard E. Silverman]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Stanley Chan wrote:

> Hi There
> 	I downloaded a copy of already compiled version of Openssh for
> Solaris 8 from sunfreeware.com and had some problem of trying to start it.
> No matter which program I tried to start e.g. ssh, sshd, ssh-agent,
> ssh-keygen etc etc. It always come back with an error message 
> "PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting."

Your pre-compiled version was probably missing the file
/etc/ssh_prng_cmds.  Grab a copy of the source and get it from there, or
just compile and install from source entirely.

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade at shore.net