openssh unix dev - Nov 1999 - Fwd: Re: status of openssh for solaris?

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-?ke

>From: Niels Provos <provos at outguess.org>
>To: openssh-unix-dev at 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 at severn.office.aol.com>
>
>Reinier Post <rp at 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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