From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc>
The command
|$ openssl rand -base64 3
|gIX3
|unable to write 'random state'
the last line is an error because `s' is never initialized if RANDFILE
is not set. It never tries to look for $HOME for the normal user. The
manpage says:
|On all systems, if the environment variable RANDFILE is set, its value
|will be used as the seed file name.
not possible, go on
|Otherwise, the file is called ".rnd", found in platform dependent locations:
| On all other systems
| $HOME
Won't work for "normal" user. This was change in commit fc6076ca272f
("rand/randfile.c: make it non-ASCII-savvy."). Was this change on
purpose?
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc>
---
crypto/rand/randfile.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crypto/rand/randfile.c b/crypto/rand/randfile.c
index 7aeb87174370..0574cfcc3860 100644
--- a/crypto/rand/randfile.c
+++ b/crypto/rand/randfile.c
@@ -318,7 +318,8 @@ const char *RAND_file_name(char *buf, size_t size)
#else
if (OPENSSL_issetugid() == 0) {
s = getenv("RANDFILE");
- } else {
+ }
+ if (!s) {
use_randfile = 0;
if (OPENSSL_issetugid() == 0)
s = getenv("HOME");
--
2.9.3
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