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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bug: "device ether" no longer optional
Message-ID:  <200006301702.KAA76841@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006301658.KAA42653@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jun 30, 2000 10:58:13 am"

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Warner Losh writes:
> : check in the fix thanks to the broken ssh. So now I'm now building
> : another kernel with RANDOMDEV, even though that this is the solution
> : was not at all obvious from reading UPDATING.
> 
> Patches to UPDATING welcome.  Grumping about UPDATING ignored. :-)

OK, does this sound correct?

diff -u -r1.91 UPDATING
--- UPDATING	2000/06/29 00:34:54	1.91
+++ UPDATING	2000/06/30 17:01:58
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 	openssh and openssl should not be used to generate keys from this
 	date to the completion of the work.
 
+	Alternately, just include 'options RANDOMDEV' in your kernel
+	and everything will start working again, albeit with reduced
+	security.
+
 20000622:
 	The license on the softupdates is now a standard 2 clause
 	BSD license.  You may need to remove your symbolic links

-Archie

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