Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:36:55 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: me@farid-hajji.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh and fixit CD? Message-ID: <200305221136.55767.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200305220351.21887.me@farid-hajji.de> References: <200305220351.21887.me@farid-hajji.de>
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On Thu, 22 May 2003 11:21, Farid Hajji wrote: > In 4.x, this doesn't work, because the random > number generator doesn't get initialized (?). > There may be issues with host keys initialization > as well. > > Up until now, I could only restore > a root disk (a.k.a / and /usr) by slipping > the drive in a working box and restoring from > there. I'm sure there is a better way, at least > with a working ssh in fixit mode. > > Sorry, I should have verified this with 5.1-BETA > CDs before posting, but I don't have the bandwidth > to D/L them right now. Perhaps the problem is > already fixed? I believe it is fixed but I'm not 100% sure. I also think you can work around the lack of /dev/random by kldload'ing the random module before trying to use ssh. I don't think you need to generate host keys if you are only using ssh (vs sshd) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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