ssh-rand-helper probs

[Kim & Kyle Bedell]

Hi all

    Am i doing this right? Is this the right list to post to? If not, a
quick lesson in ettiquette for me would not hurt.  As I am both just
starting to use newsgroups and SSH, I am not entirely familiar with the
processes.  I have a question about ssh-rand-helper.  First an outline:   I
am currently using the SSH packages for Solaris 2.8 available at
sunfreeware.com.  The environment is Solaris 8 (2.8) on sun4u platforms
(ultras).  At work, I have constructed a boot and installation server, an
Ultra 450 that amongst other things, installs, configures SSH and
auto-generates SSH keys as part of the client build.  No problems there, it
works quite nicely so that when the client finishes building, it can be
immediately deployed.  At home however, I practice and experiment alot.  I
use an SS20 with 224MB of RAM as a boot server but I get a different set of
errors depending on what I do:

The first time I tried this type of installation of SSH at home however I
got an error that read:

 "ld.so.1: /a/usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen: fatal: libz.so: open failed: No such
file or directory.  Killed"

So........just feed it some env parameters ....like LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
right?    nope

tried that and got this:

"(rand child) Couldn't exec '/usr/local/libexec/ssh-rannd-helper':  No such
file or directory
ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data"

This sounds like:  1.  It really cant find the specified path/filename but
then how did the second part occur, that being:  "ssh-rand-helper child
produced insufficient data"  It also sounds like prngd is not doing its job
but I have sat in on the build and watched it start up in a cmd tool window
while the client builds.
This only happens when I use a script (!) and again, it only happens here at
home on this sparc20.  (Did I say that already?)   :) After the client
finishes building,  I can manually generate keys using the ssh-keygen
utility without incident.

the relevant excerpt from the customization script that I uses is here:
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/a/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
echo "##########################################"
echo "#
#"
echo "#       Installing and configuring
#"
echo "#      samba and SSH (Secure Shell)                           #"
echo "#
#"
echo "##########################################"
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/vnc/vnc-3.3.3r2-sol8-sparc-local all
mkdir -p /a/usr/local/samba
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/samba/samba-2.2.2-sol8-sparc-local all
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/zlib-1.1.4-sol8-sparc-local all
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/perl-5.6.1-sol8-sparc-local all
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/egd-0.8-sol8-sparc-local all
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/prngd-0.9.23-sol8-sparc-local all
#pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/tcp_wrappers_7.6-sol8-sparc-local all
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/openssl-0.9.6c-sol8-sparc-local all
pkgadd -R /a -a ${ADMIN_FILE} -d
${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/openssh-3.1p1-sol8-sparc-local all
sleep 3
cat /a/var/sadm/system/logs/sysidtool.log >/a/usr/local/etc/prngd-seed
echo "##########################################"
echo "#
#"
echo "#       (SSH) Creating seed file                                    #"
echo "#
#"
echo "##########################################"
sleep 2
cp ${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/prngd /a/etc/init.d/.
cp ${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/sshd /a/etc/init.d/.
chown root:sys /a/etc/init.d/prngd
chown root:sys /a/etc/init.d/sshd
chmod 544 /a/etc/init.d/prngd
chmod 544 /a/etc/init.d/sshd
ln -s /etc/init.d/sshd /a/etc/rc2.d/S98sshd
ln -s /etc/init.d/prngd /a/etc/rc2.d/S98prngd
cp ${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/hosts.allow /a/etc/.
cp ${SU_CONFIG_DIR}/packages/sshpkgs/hosts.deny /a/etc/.
cd /var
mkdir -p spool/prngd
/a/usr/local/bin/prngd /var/spool/prngd/pool
sleep 3
echo "###################################"
echo "Attempting to create socket: "pool""
echo "###################################"
sleep 3
/a/usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /a/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
/a/usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /a/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key -N
""
/a/usr/local/bin/ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /a/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -N
""
echo "##########################################"
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Any ideas?  All advice appreciated and I thank you in advance

Kyle