On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David Foster wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> I rebooted one of our dinosaur Sun Sparc 10's, SunOS 4.1.4,
> and upon startup the sshd daemon dies giving:
>
> hostname:/usr) /usr/bin/sshd -d
> debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.1p1
> debug1: load_private_key_autodetect: type 0 RSA1
> debug1: read SSH2 private key done: name dsa w/o comment success 1
> debug1: load_private_key_autodetect: type 2 DSA
> debug1: Seeded RNG with 15 bytes from programs
> debug1: Seeded RNG with 3 bytes from system calls
> fatal: Not enough entropy in RNG
> debug1: Calling cleanup 0x29be0(0x0)
> debug1: writing PRNG seed to file //.ssh/prng_seed
>
> Can someone tell me how to rectify this? I've been thru the
> archives of this list, didn't find anything. I need to get
> this restored ASAP (day in the life of a sysadmin...).
Turn on verbose debugging "sshd -d -d -d". You may need to rebuild
OpenSSH, increasing the --with-entropy-timeout configure parameter
or specify more commands (in ssh_prng_cmds) to execute.
A better solution (which another poster has mentioned) is to install
PRNGd and rebuild OpenSSH to use it as a source of random numbers.
-d
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