Fwd: OpenSSH on Ultrix?

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Feb 27 20:23:01 EST 2001


On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:43:04AM -0800, Robbie Stone wrote:
> 	Insufficient entropy errors occur under Ultrix because of no
> /dev/random. OpenSSH takes care of this by complaining and failing to
> connect. The commercial SSH stuff uses system commands to make up for
> the lack of /dev/random, so it runs ps ,netstat, vmstat, etc. I haven't
> found support for this in OpenSSH yet but it is terribly necessary for

openssh does this, too.

> OSs without /dev/random.





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