From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 23:17:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CD016A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:17:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5E443D4C for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:17:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.alpha-tierchen.de (port-212-202-38-15.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.38.15]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB819123961; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:17:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.local [127.0.0.1]) by mail.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C8ACCE743; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:17:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.alpha-tierchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (alpha-tierchen.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54139-10; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:17:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (alpha.local [192.168.1.2]) by mail.alpha-tierchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A5ACCE73B; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:17:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <421E60A2.9090506@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:17:54 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050125) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gahn References: <20050224225430.11899.qmail@web53107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050224225430.11899.qmail@web53107.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at alpha-tierchen.de cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Entropy is blocking X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:17:40 -0000 gahn wrote: > what exactly is this entropy thing? it seems to be > killing some processes such as sshd > > freebsd# /etc/rc.d/sshd start > /etc/rc.d/sshdÑ WARNING: Setting entropy source to > blocking mod. > ================================================== > ...... > Just hit for fast+insecure startup > > ================================================== > > i am using 5.3. how can i use it? can i disable it? Entropy in this context has something to do with probability theory. It just want some junk from you keyboard. In other words, if you have a cat, let it walk through your keyboard and then hit . This is necessary for maximum security while creating a host key. This will only occur once. If you don't want to bother the cat then just hit . That's it. Regards Björn