openssh / prngd unresolved bug since 2002, need help

[David Beecher]

Hello Jim,

Thank you very much.  I am aware of the random number generator on sunos
5.9.  Finally they included one.  Unfortunately this install is sunos 5.8
and not easily changeable at this point.

I was not aware that patches for sunos 5.8 existed that would add urandom
and when I saw the package on sunfreeware that used prngd I assumed none
existed and prngd was required.

I will look for them and report back here what I find.

Thanks a lot!
David



Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2008-07-11 15:57 dixit Ben Lindstrom:
>
> : If you are on Solaris 9.. You should have a /dev/[u]random and you
> : shouldn't need prngd (or am I thinking Solaris 10?).
>
> Solaris 9 should have /dev/random and /dev/urandom already.  Solaris 8
> has patches which provide it.
>
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