Bug 163 - /dev/random not used
Summary: /dev/random not used
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Build system (show other bugs)
Version: -current
Hardware: SPARC Solaris
: P1 critical
Assignee: OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list
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Reported: 2002-03-14 02:53 AEDT by Brian Gallew
Modified: 2004-04-14 12:24 AEST (History)
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Description Brian Gallew 2002-03-14 02:53:36 AEDT 
Solaris8 with SUNWski installed (provides /dev/random).
Symptom: "./configure --with-random=/dev/random" yields 
checking whether OpenSSL's headers match the library... yes
checking whether OpenSSL's PRNG is internally seeded... no
configure: WARNING: *** Forcing use of OpenSSL's non-self-seeding PRNG

Checking the configure script, it no longer accepts --with-random, and doesn't
check /dev/random (or /dev/urandom for that matter).  The INSTALL file still
indicates that this should work.  I attempted to work around the problem with
"--with-prngd-socket=/dev/random" to no avail.
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2002-04-17 12:22:52 AEST 
The documentation issue has been resolved in -current. You should configure
OpenSSL to use your /dev/random, then OpenSSL will support it automatically.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:18 AEST 
Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED