From: Rock Pomerleau (Rpomerleau@dgeq.qc.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 13:46:38 EST
Hi,
Has anyone ever installed and configured SSH to work with PRNGD? I installed prngd-0.9.27 and openSSH 3.5p1 on a Compaq DS10 on which Tru64 5.1a is running.
So, the point is, I don't understand how to create the file prngd.conf. It is not that clear for me the way it is explained in the documentation.
Here is a part of the documentation:
Usage of PRNGD is simple:
- Adjust the Makefile (and config.h) to fit your machine and compile "prngd".
Install it at a place you like (e.g. /usr/local/sbin).
Ok for that
- Generate an /etc/prngd.conf file with commands to gather entropy. The
format of the file is taken from the OpenSSH-portable package. See the
included examples in the contrib/OS subdirectories _and_ read the
file 00README.gatherers.
That one is not clear.
What I am supposed to do with the file contrib/Tru64/prngk.conf.tru64 ? How the file /etc/prngd.conf is generated ?
- Generate an initial seed by some means. If you already have a real EGD, use
egc.pl /path/to/EGD-SOCKET read 255 > /etc/prngd-seed
(egc.pl is part of the EGD source package)
or cat some logfiles together
cat /var/adm/syslog/mail.log /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log > /etc/prngd-seed
(prngd will start without initial seed and collect entropy as fast as it
can on startup. If you can supply initial seed it is even better.)
This step is only relevant before the first start.
Ok for that
TIA!
Rock Pomerleau
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