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On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:24 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |
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> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:07 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: |
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> > when i restart sshd I get PRNG is not seeded |
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> > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart |
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> > PRNG is not seeded |
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> Does /dev/urandom exist? What are it's permissions? |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Never eat more than you can lift. |
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> Hi |
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> Thanks for the clue, |
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> Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system. |
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> How do i go ahead in fixing this issue |
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> Thanks and Regards |
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> Kaushal |
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I'm not sure if this is a permanent solution because /dev is a tmpfs |
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created by udev on startup (maybe there is your problem?) but you could |
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try |
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mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8 |
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mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9 |
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Both commands are taken from Linux from Scratch. |
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There is a static /dev lying on your root-partition. It should have been |
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created when you extracted your stage3-tarball during installation. |
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Maybe there is something wrong with that one and udev doesn't create |
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(u)random when they are not in the static one. To see the static /dev |
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you must unmount /dev, which you can only do from a live-cd. |
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