OpenSSH-3.1p1 Solaris build with /dev/random

Matt Studley mjs at ams.org
Thu Mar 14 00:54:51 EST 2002


One does exist with that release.  In /etc/init.d there is the cryptorand
script which creates the device when run.  Take a look at
/usr/lib/security/cryptorand.

Matt Studley
American Mathematical Society
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, 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.
>




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