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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:17:36 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rsh/rlogin (was Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009232215430.13159-100000@jamus.xpert.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009231613.e8NGDh560434@green.dyndns.org>

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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> 
> > Having said that and taking my security officer hat off and putting my 
> > manager hat on.  Most organisations that use SSH are using it 
> > illegally.  With recent licensing changes and the fact that OpenSSH 
> > doesn't install all that cleanly on non-BSD platforms, e.g. no 
> > /dev/random, compile errors, and my customers report that OpenSSH 
> > sometimes hangs on Solaris 2.6 systems (probably related to the entropy 
> > gathering daemon that substitutes /dev/random on non-BSD systems), the 
> > quick and dirty solutions are:
> 
> Or possibly related to Solaris 2.6 being increasingly ancient and buggy...
There's a port of Linux' /dev/random for Solaris I use myself on a 2.6
system. It works for me.
I can send an url if anyone is interested.

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]



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