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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:35:20 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Didier WIROTH <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh error "PRNG is not seeded"
Message-ID:  <20040204183520.GA25749@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <0HSK009A6HZBMY@mail.etat.lu>
References:  <0HSK009A6HZBMY@mail.etat.lu>

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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:04:24PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote:
> Hi,
> I've chosen "do want to login via ssh=3DNO" (can't exactly remember but i=
t was
> a similar question) during setup of freebsd5.2, now, when I try to use scp
> or ssh client I get the following error message:
> "PRNG is not seeded"
>=20
> How can I solve the problem?!

Have you built a custom kernel?  You may have removed support for the
(effectively mandatory) 'random' device; add it back or kldload the
module.

Kris

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