>>On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Ed Dotorg wrote: >> I have been using nessus 2.0.4 on solaris 8 with no >> problems. Today I upgraded to 2.0.12. Everything >> compiled and installed with no errors. >> >> Now when I start the client, enter my username and >> password, and click on the log in button I get the >> following... >> >> [11219] SSL_connect: error:24064064:random number >> generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:prng not seeded > >This is a known Solaris issue. And easy to find with >google: >http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Installing_Nessus_on_Solaris.html > >You need to create more chaos. ;-) > >Hugo.
Thanks for the pointer. I submit the following for any solaris users seeing the same error. It had been a few years since I originally installed nessus on solairs and I had forgotten about the solaris random number generator thingy. After doing more archive digging and especially after re-reading README_SSL (with particular attention to solaris comments) I discovered that my $HOME/.rnd file showed root as the owner. I presume from when I ran mkrand after upgrading (thus creating chaos!). Once I corrected the file ownership my ssl_connect errors are gone. Hope this helps someone else. Cheers _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
