OpenSSH-3.1p1 Solaris build with /dev/random

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Wed Mar 13 15:35:31 EST 2002


On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:35:23PM -0800, Kevin Steves wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Matt Studley wrote:
> :has anyone had a problem building 3.1p1 with Solaris 8 (2/02 release)?
> :That release of Solaris was the first (I believe) to incorporate their own
> :/dev/random which OpenSSH 3.1 doesn't seem to like too much.
> 
> I don't see a /dev/random driver on Solaris 8 2/02, and can't find any
> mention in the release documentation.

It's in SUNWski, do you have that installed?  /dev/random is a fifo in
SUNWski (created at boot time).

I dunno about Solaris 8 02/02, but SUNWski was previously available
unbundled for 2.6+, but only for 32-bit.

/fc



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