On Dec 17, 2007 11:43 AM, Christian Wurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a patch adressing the chmod command in the current bind > installation instructions (ticket #2409). So far I removed the outer > curly brackets, which solves the "no such file or directory" error > reported by Moody. > > He also suggests in the ticket to use /dev/urandom in the rndc-confgen > statement. After reading the urandom man page I'm not sure if this is > a good idea. As far as I understand it this is only an issue if > /dev/random runs out of entropy. I have no idea how likely this is to > happen, even without the random init script from the book which helps > here, as far as I understand it. The man page also states that > /dev/urandom might be vulnerable to cryptography attacks. > > I would like to submit a patch which adresses both, but I need help > with the urandom suggestion. Any thoughts about this, i.e. shall we > use urandom or leave it like it is and use random?
Have you checked how distros like Ubuntu and Fedora do it? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
