From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 23 13:26:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jamus.xpert.com (jamus.xpert.com [199.203.132.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241CC37B422 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roman (helo=localhost) by jamus.xpert.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #5) id 13cvs6-0003S1-00; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:26:06 +0200 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:26:06 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Christian Kuhtz Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: [url] /dev/random for Solaris In-Reply-To: <20000923162217.A27118@ns1.arch.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > Yeah, please send me the URL. Thanks.. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ Enjoy! > On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:17:36PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > > > > > > > Having said that and taking my security officer hat off and putting my > > > > manager hat on. Most organisations that use SSH are using it > > > > illegally. With recent licensing changes and the fact that OpenSSH > > > > doesn't install all that cleanly on non-BSD platforms, e.g. no > > > > /dev/random, compile errors, and my customers report that OpenSSH > > > > sometimes hangs on Solaris 2.6 systems (probably related to the entropy > > > > gathering daemon that substitutes /dev/random on non-BSD systems), the > > > > quick and dirty solutions are: > > > > > > Or possibly related to Solaris 2.6 being increasingly ancient and buggy... > > There's a port of Linux' /dev/random for Solaris I use myself on a 2.6 > > system. It works for me. > > I can send an url if anyone is interested. > > > > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant > > [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > -- > Christian Kuhtz Architecture, BellSouth.net > -wk, -hm Atlanta, GA > "Speaking for myself only." > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message