Fwd: OpenSSH on Ultrix?

[Robbie Stone]

Markus Friedl wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

If OpenSSH does this then how does it determine which commands are
appropriate? The *other* SSH that I installed had arguments that it was
passing to netstat that didn't come until 4-5 years later ;-)


Robbie

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