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Regarding /tmp/random:

Someone has made the same quick&dirty fix as my AIX compile fix, for a lack
of /dev/urandom.

ssh expects some random bytes to be available in that file. I, or someone
else should probably create a more portable way of generating entropy. ;)

//Tor-Åke


>From: Niels Provos <provos@outguess.org>
>To: openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org
>Subject: Fwd: Re: status of openssh for solaris?
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:40:41 -0500 (EST)
>
From USENET, can somebody comment?
>
>Newsgroups: comp.security.ssh
>Subject: Re: status of openssh for solaris?
>Date: 18 Nov 1999 18:31:47 -0500
>Message-ID: <ygaso23e5qz.fsf@severn.office.aol.com>
>
>Reinier Post <rp@win.tue.nl> writes:
>
> > It looks as if OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com/) is available for
> > Solaris. Can anybody comment on its maturity?
>
>I dunno about that. It compiles on Solaris 2.6 but when I run it, it
>dies with:
>
> Couldn't open random pool "/tmp/random":
> Operation not supported on transport endpoint
>
>when it tries to open the EGD socket.
>
>I get a similar error on Digital Unix 4.0D:
>
> Couldn't open random pool "/tmp/random":
> Operation not supported on socket
>
>Anyone have any clues for me?
>
>--
>Joel Gallun
>http://www.tux.org/~joel
>

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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Tor-Ake Fransson wrote:

> Regarding /tmp/random:
>
> Someone has made the same quick&dirty fix as my AIX compile fix, for
> a lack of /dev/urandom.
>
> ssh expects some random bytes to be available in that file. I,
> or someone else should probably create a more portable way of
> generating entropy. ;)

This one was my stupidity - EGD uses an AF_UNIX socket and not a
named pipe, so simply open()ing the endpoint is not sufficient. This
too is fixed in 1.2pre13.

The EGD code and operation on Solaris still need a lot of testing.
Unfortunatly I have to rely on other people to do that as I do not
have access to a Solaris box.

Regards,
Damien

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I've been working on the Solaris patches, and that is one bug that I've
yet to be able to fix :( I've been working on getting everything to
compile cleanly on Solaris 7/x86, and will be tackling the EGD issue next,
unless someone else has a clue :)



On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Niels Provos wrote:

> From USENET, can somebody comment?
>
> Newsgroups: comp.security.ssh
> Subject: Re: status of openssh for solaris?
> Date: 18 Nov 1999 18:31:47 -0500
> Message-ID: <ygaso23e5qz.fsf@severn.office.aol.com>
>
> Reinier Post <rp@win.tue.nl> writes:
>
> > It looks as if OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com/) is available for
> > Solaris. Can anybody comment on its maturity?
>
> I dunno about that. It compiles on Solaris 2.6 but when I run it, it
> dies with:
>
> Couldn't open random pool "/tmp/random":
> Operation not supported on transport endpoint
>
> when it tries to open the EGD socket.
>
> I get a similar error on Digital Unix 4.0D:
>
> Couldn't open random pool "/tmp/random":
> Operation not supported on socket
>
> Anyone have any clues for me?
>
> --
> Joel Gallun
> http://www.tux.org/~joel
>
>

Marc G. Fournier marc.fournier@acadiau.ca
Senior Systems Administrator Acadia University

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