Fwd: OpenSSH on Ultrix?

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:45:19AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Gert Doering wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:27:08AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > > Yes - PRNGd is very nice and is superior to portable OpenSSH's own
> > [..]
> > > I strongly recommend it to everyone without a /dev/random.
> >
> > Are there any chances to use it on a system without unix sockets
> > (always the same problem here - SCO 3.0)?
> 
> Lutz,
> 
> Is there any chance of teaching PRNGd to listen on a localhost socket
> rather than (or in addition to) a Unix domain socket?

Yes, that should be possible. I don't see a problem as long as we can
stay with 127.0.0.1 (otherwise access control via tcpd would be needed
to be built in and we would probably come a bit far from what PRNGD
actually should do :-).

Give me a bit of time to realize the new feature.
	Lutz
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