Re: /dev/random, /dev/urandom

[Ray Olszewski]

At 03:27 PM 1/8/03 -0500, Jamie Risk wrote:

I'm compiling OpenSSH, and to access /dev/random, and /dev/urandom, the
configure script needs to be run as root.

What sort of trauma am I in for if I make those device permissions read
accessible by everyone?

Nothing serious that I can think of (though I suppose a malicious user might "use up" the system's entropy). The man page for "random" recommends mode 644 for both devices. Standard Debian installs make them world readable.


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