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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:07:24 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, will@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kde-2.1/freebsd 4.3beta/konqueror and openssl
Message-ID:  <20010315080724.C60762@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103151922420.42566-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>; from dinesh@alphaque.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:24:28PM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103151423470.42566-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103151922420.42566-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:24:28PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>=20
> > base problem is i cant get konqueror to make https: connections. follow=
ing
> > the faq at www.konqueror.org, i explicitly included --with-ssl in
> > /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs2/Makefile and /usr/ports/x11/kdebase2/Makefile a=
nd
> > rebuilt and reinstalled both kdelibs2 and kdebase2, in that order.
>=20
> fixed this. libssl was trying to read /dev/urandom, but this was
> originally set as mode 0600 with root as the owner, so it silently
> died. chmod go+r /dev/urandom and https: on konqueror works like a charm.
>=20
> now question is if openssl is reading /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random
> or if the perms on /dev/urandom were wrong to begin with.

The latter:

> ls -l /dev/*random
crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2,   3 Mar 11 21:22 /dev/random
crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2,   4 Mar 11 21:22 /dev/urandom

Kris

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