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Date:      Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:46:51 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Ben Laurie <benl@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d
Message-ID:  <86fw6iyt9w.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <E1TCdlD-000C1N-4g@groundzero.grondar.org> (Mark Murray's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:49:14 %2B0100")
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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> writes:
> You have to rely on something; Yarrow needs some entropy to cold-start,
> and on a freshly installed OS, this is rocking-horse shit. This is
> where BIG problems start because it is at this time that (eg) SSH keys
> are built. We make some effort to get the user to "kayboard bash", but
> experience has shown that annoyed users screw up, and annoyed engineers
> are often worse.

Look at the code, the "keyboard bash" hasn't worked since someone broke
it in 2006.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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