Sorry, never mind. There's an overflow vulnerability in it: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12196/
On April 4, 2005 02:51 am, Robert Connolly wrote: > Hi. Since linux-2.6.11 I have been unable to reset kernel.random.poolsize, > either in /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize or with /sbin/sysctl -w. I am of > course root. I get "Operation not permitted" even on boot > from /etc/sysctl.conf. > > Anyway. I'm hoping someone here has maybe more information about this. I > checked Google and I didn't come up with anything. I'm on 2.6.11.6 now and > the problem is the same. All of the above used to work in 2.6.10 and > previous. > > robert -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
