EGD requirement a show stopper for me

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Dave Dykstra wrote:

 
> The memory requirement isn't the worse problem for me:  I currently
> distribute the ssh 1.2.27 client via a non-root user id *very* widely
> throughout my company (on 8 unix variants), and there isn't any reasonable
> way for me to start a shared long-running process on every machine that may
> run ssh.  It's not a problem for the machines that are running sshd, since
> that has to run as root anyway, but it is a big problem on machines that
> run the ssh client only.  I could start a shared processes on the servers
> that receive the distribution under my non-root user id, but that doesn't
> help for all the workstations that nfs-mount the package from servers.

I have received a patch to enable the EGD support in OpenSSH to
use a TCP socket for communications with EGD. This would allow
multiple users on a machine to share a single instance of
EGD. Though I wouldn't recommend it be used over a network.

> I need a mechanism like the one used in commercial ssh, where the random
> seed is saved in a file.

Sun do have a random driver which may be of use:

BH> You can install the SUNWski package. It comes with the sun webserver on the
BH> SEAS cd. It's still not a kernel random like linux though. It has a stand
BH> alone daemon like the perl package. I think it's a little lighter though.

BH>    PKGINST:  SUNWski
BH>       NAME:  SKI 1.0 Software (User Package)
BH>   CATEGORY:  application
BH>       ARCH:  sparc
BH>    VERSION:  1.0,REV=1998.09.24.00.00
BH>    BASEDIR:  /
BH>     VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems
BH>       DESC:  SKI Software (User Package)
BH>     PSTAMP:  mcm-ultra1>Fri Dec  4 14:23:39 PST 1998
BH>   INSTDATE:  Jan 07 2000 16:32
BH>     VSTOCK:  258-6422-05
BH>    HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
BH>     STATUS:  completely installed
BH>      FILES:     36 installed pathnames
BH>                 10 shared pathnames
BH>                  4 linked files
BH>                 11 directories
BH>                 16 executables
BH>               3173 blocks used (approx)

-d
 

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