I made some experimental lsd debs, they are at http://people.debian.org/~bug1/hurd/
To compile them i had to --disable-kerberos support, for a proper deb package there are a few ways to aproach it - Special case the hurd build so it doesnt compile with kerberos support and others do. - Try and make two seperate lsh* debs across all platforms, with and without kerberos support. - Port kerberos to the hurd. The last option would be the hardest, i dont know enough about kerberos to know if it would justify the effort right now. To use the debs it will try and create a random key with a program called lsh-create-seed, i couldnt get that to work but copying one across from my linux machine worked, and the lshd server seems to be working fine. Having a bit of a look at lsh-create-seed it gets some intitial entropy from the environment by tring to run a combination of netstat, ntptrace, snmp-request mpstat, w, df, portstat and iostat, after that it gets entropy via the keyboard. Only w and df work under the hurd, so it doesnt get to the keyboard stage, i tried using the --sloppy option that doesnt have a prequesit on the amount of data from the first source, but it locked my machine up. netstat would be a good one to get working but net-tools doesnt look very portable. The way its setup i think would be easy to modify it to get input from some other sources if they exist, any sugggestions ? Glenn
