OpenSSH 3.4p1 "PRNG is not seeded"

David Marshall dmarshall at esilicon.com
Wed Jul 24 12:42:59 EST 2002


I upgraded from OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 to OpenSSH 3.4p1. Starting SSHD or
ssh-keygen I'm getting the "PRNG is not seeded".

I have verified that prngd is running and "egc.pl /var/spool/prngd/pool get"
runs just fine reporting 32800 bits of entropy.

My platform is Solaris 8 (sparc) and I downloaded binaries from
www.sunfreeware.com. 

My guess is the build of OpenSSH 3.4.p1 is looking for prngd in a different
location than my configuration. 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can debug this?


David Marshall



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