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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:02:57 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh error "PRNG is not seeded"
Message-ID:  <20040204210257.1b309012@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
In-Reply-To: <20040204183520.GA25749@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <0HSK009A6HZBMY@mail.etat.lu> <20040204183520.GA25749@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:35:20 -0800
Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:04:24PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've chosen "do want to login via ssh=NO" (can't exactly remember but it was
> > a similar question) during setup of freebsd5.2, now, when I try to use scp
> > or ssh client I get the following error message:
> > "PRNG is not seeded"
> > 
> > How can I solve the problem?!
> 
> Have you built a custom kernel?  You may have removed support for the
> (effectively mandatory) 'random' device; add it back or kldload the
> module.

Hm, I remember having this issue a few days ago and it magically
disappeared, if memory serves; if not I had a slightly (few deay)
kernel/world out of sync. But the kernel had random.

-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user



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