Fwd: OpenSSH on Ultrix?

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Robbie Stone wrote:

> 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 ;-)

Read WARNING.RNG and @sysconfdir@/ssh_prng_cmds

Unlike ssh.com's implementation, you can modify the command list yourself.

Also "ssh -v -v -v" will give you obscene detail about the execution of
each program.

-d

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