[SunHELP] PRNGD is not seeded ??

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:28:07AM -0400, Tim Longo wrote:
> I'm trying to get ssh working on a solaris 8 machine.  I'm following the
> instructions on sunfreeware.com, and installing packages recommended here
> (which I have used previously).
>
> On this particular machine (which I did not install), I've installed the
> following:
> prngd
> openssl
> openssh
> zlib
> egd
> libgcc
>
> Next, I setup prngd, and started the daemon.  If I use the egc.pl script, I
> see the following:
>
>  /usr/local/bin/egc.pl  /var/spool/prngd/pool get
>  32800 bits of entropy in pool
>
> The next step is to generate keys, but when I try I see the following:
>
> # ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
> PRNG is not seeded
>
> Not sure what this means??  Can anyone make a suggestion??

You don't need egc and prngd on solaris 8: you have a /dev/urandom .  If
not, use the patch from SUN.  Make ssh use /dev/urandom : it's more
reliable.

(Alternative: just try the ssh-keygen again, or feed your pool again.)

Bye,

Joost

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