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I have a need to provide ssh client binaries for use elsewhere on several platforms, some without /dev/random support. I can't assume that users will know how to install/run prngd or egd, so I was planning to rely on the builtin prng code. However this require the ssh_prng_cmds file to exist in a fixed location -- which would mean making binaries which either look for it in . or other

Hi ! Karsten Thygesen wrote: >>>>> "carl" == carl <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> writes: > carl> Marc, I'm seeing the same problem if I use the inbuilt entropy > carl> generator, but if I use SUNWski's /dev/random, it's fine. > carl> ssh also coredumps if I use the built in entropy generator if I > carl> run it in verbose mode.

...o > > Well spotted. Doh. No problem. I had to use the debug mode to find out why the X11 forwarding didn't work. Finally, the problem was in the client, though. > I think an even better way to fix this would be to save the string as > parsed from ssh_prng_cmds in the command's entropy_source_t, and print > that in debug messages. It's a tiny amount of memory for what is, as you > say, useful debugging info. Sure. I did look at the sources for the first time and do not know a lot of OpenSSH, yet. So, just go ahead and apply your suggested fix for the next release and we are all...