From: Mike's List (mikelist@sky.net)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 17:38:18 EDT
Thanks to all that replied, sorry for the delay, just now finishing up my
server... Casper Dik, system administrator, keith@smith.net, Jeffrey Tay,
David Foster, and anyone I missed.
I installed all the packages from sunfreeware.com (w/out PRNGD) and ssh
seems to work just fine...fingerprint deleted below for security reason ;)
- Mike
# ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
# ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
# ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ""
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Mike's List wrote:
> Just need to confirm, with the patch 112438-01 installed, you DO NOT need
> the below? (openssh installation procedure #2 AND install prngd?) Yes?
>
>
> - Mike
>
>
> Step Two: Getting Entropy
>
> The next step in installation is to start the generation of entropy for use
> by openssl and openssh. This is done with the prngd program. To set this
> up, read the README.prngd file. Make sure you have /usr/local/bin in your
> PATH first. Now go to your /var/log, /var/adm, or similar directories and
> look for some log files like messages, syslog, etc. Make sure you are
> logged in as root user and run
>
> cat ....various log files from your /var/log or /var/adm directories... >
> /usr/local/etc/prngd/prngd-seed
>
> such as
>
> cat syslog messages > /usr/local/etc/prngd/prngd-seed
>
> Then run
>
> mkdir /var/spool/prngd
>
> /usr/local/bin/prngd /var/spool/prngd/pool
>
> This should start up the prngd daemon and start generating entropy. You can
> check this by running
>
> /usr/local/bin/egc.pl /var/spool/prngd/pool get
>
> which, if the egd package (see README.egd) is installed along with perl,
> will give a message like
>
> 32800 bits of entropy in pool
>
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