Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 17:59 +0800, Ian Campbell wrote: > If it's going to override/shadow (as opposed to simply working > alongside/in parallel) urandom, probably it ought to also be looking > at/consuming the urandom seed? Perhaps. I'm not sure systemd upstream would be convinced though. --

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 08:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 11:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > Wouldn't it just be easier to write it one location and replace the > > other with a symlink to it? > > Looks like neither the urandom init script nor systemd-random-seed > unlink

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 11:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Wouldn't it just be easier to write it one location and replace the > other with a symlink to it? Looks like neither the urandom init script nor systemd-random-seed unlink the file before writing to it, so this could potentially work

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 05:20:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >Package: finish-install >Version: 2.56 >Severity: important >Tags: security >Control: found -1 2.81 >Control: found -1 2.100 >Control: found -1 2.101 > >finish-install creates a random seed in the location used by the >urandom init script

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2019-09-28 at 17:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: finish-install > Version: 2.56 > Severity: important > Tags: security > Control: found -1 2.81 > Control: found -1 2.100 > Control: found -1 2.101 > > finish-install creates a random seed in the location used by the > urandom init

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-09-28 Thread Paul Wise
Package: finish-install Version: 2.56 Severity: important Tags: security Control: found -1 2.81 Control: found -1 2.100 Control: found -1 2.101 finish-install creates a random seed in the location used by the urandom init script from the initscripts package. On systemd based systems,