Thanks for all of the replies. I have been evaluating the options to
determine the best for our installation.

Dave

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, William Brady
wrote:

>
> > What are you using as an entropy source for SSH on this machine?  You
> > should of course be aware that Solaris does not have a /dev/random or
> > /dev/urandom (bad Sun, bad!, no donut), and therefore an external entropy
> > source is required in order to use SSH on Solaris.  There are several out
> > there, and I've never had any joy with either of them.
>
>   I have tried about a half dozen thrid party Entropy gatherers, then I
> came across an old mailing list archive that made reference to Sun Patch
> number 105710-01 which has a package in it called SUNWski. The SUNWski
> package creates /dev/random and was originally used to fix Sun's webserver
> or something useless like that, however this patch works great. You do a
> simple pkgadd and it's done. You can get the patch from
> http://access1.sun.com however I've had problems gettign anything from
> them lately. The patches are mirrored and more readily available at:
>
>       ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/sun-patches/
>
>  It should work nicely.
>
>  -William
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