On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 12:14:58PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > You run it once. Manually. And never again. > > Nope, sorry, that's not a good enough answer.
It is for the typical and default installs. > It doesn't solve the > problem of dealing with a lack of mutable storage. When you create a custom setup like that, you will have to replace etc/rc.d/entropy with a custom solution (e.g. mounting some flash storage). Or you ignore the issue and do the dd at each boot - hopefully not generating any strong keys on that machine then (but you would have no good storage for those anyway). Martin