I am running openssh 3.4p1 and had everything working fine, but then we had to upgrde the openssl. So did the same steps now openssh is not seeing prngd. We configure openssh with : --with-prngd-socket=/var/spool/prngd/pool this is what we saw with openssl-0.9.6g when I configured it: OpenSSH has been configured with the following options: User binaries: /usr/local/bin System binaries: /usr/local/sbin Configuration files: /usr/local/etc Askpass program: /usr/local/libexec/ssh-askpass Manual pages: /usr/local/man/manX PID file: /usr/local/etc Privilege separation chroot path: /var/empty sshd default user PATH: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin Manpage format: man PAM support: no KerberosIV support: no KerberosV support: no Smartcard support: no AFS support: no S/KEY support: no TCP Wrappers support: yes MD5 password support: no IP address in $DISPLAY hack: no Use IPv4 by default hack: no Translate v4 in v6 hack: no BSD Auth support: no Random number source: ssh-rand-helper ssh-rand-helper collects from: Unix domain socket "/var/spool/prngd/pool" Host: sparc-sun-solaris2.7 Compiler: gcc Compiler flags: -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized Preprocessor flags: -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include Linker flags: -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib Libraries: -lwrap -lz -lsocket -lnsl -lcrypto You can see the Random Number Source is ssh-rand-helper with the new openssl-0.9.7b I get this: OpenSSH has been configured with the following options: User binaries: /usr/local/bin System binaries: /usr/local/sbin Configuration files: /usr/local/etc Askpass program: /usr/local/libexec/ssh-askpass Manual pages: /usr/local/man/manX PID file: /usr/local/etc Privilege separation chroot path: /var/empty sshd default user PATH: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin Manpage format: man PAM support: no KerberosIV support: no KerberosV support: no Smartcard support: no AFS support: no S/KEY support: no TCP Wrappers support: yes MD5 password support: no IP address in $DISPLAY hack: no Use IPv4 by default hack: no Translate v4 in v6 hack: no BSD Auth support: no Random number source: OpenSSL internal ONLY Host: sparc-sun-solaris2.7 Compiler: gcc Compiler flags: -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-uninitialized Preprocessor flags: -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include Linker flags: -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/lo cal/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib Libraries: -lwrap -lz -lsocket -lnsl -lcrypto You see the random number source is openSSL interal only Do you know why? I use the configuration on both without changing it.... thanks Kaysee