[SunHELP] PRNGD is not seeded ??

Tim Longo tlongo at avaya.com
Tue Apr 15 05:28:07 CDT 2003


I'm trying to get ssh working on a solaris 8 machine.  I'm following the
instructions on sunfreeware.com, and installing packages recommended here
(which I have used previously).

On this particular machine (which I did not install), I've installed the
following:
prngd
openssl
openssh
zlib
egd
libgcc

Next, I setup prngd, and started the daemon.  If I use the egc.pl script, I
see the following:

 /usr/local/bin/egc.pl  /var/spool/prngd/pool get
 32800 bits of entropy in pool

The next step is to generate keys, but when I try I see the following:

# ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
PRNG is not seeded

Not sure what this means??  Can anyone make a suggestion??

Thank you!


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