OpenSSH 3.4p1 "PRNG is not seeded"

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:42:59PM -0700, David Marshall wrote:
> 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.

Did you configure with "--with-prngd-socket=/var/spool/prngd/pool", such
that OpenSSH picks up the socket? As /var/spool/prngd/pool is not one of
the recommended standard locations (recommondations from OpenSSL for support
in 0.9.7), it might not be picked up automatically.

Best regards,
	Lutz
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