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From: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>
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thanks dan:

Can I do it manually? Actually I typed a bunch of
random letters and it didnīt seem to be working ...

mike

--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:

> In the last episode (Feb 24), gahn said:
> > what exactly is this entropy thing? it seems to be
> > killing some processes such as sshd
> > 
> > freebsd# /etc/rc.d/sshd start
> > /etc/rc.d/sshd? WARNING: Setting entropy source to
> > blocking mod.
> > ==================================================
> > ......
> > Just hit <enter> for fast+insecure startup
> > 
> > ==================================================
> 
> That happens the first time you reboot after
> installing the system.
> There is no stored entropy, and the system needs
> some randomness so it
> can generate secure ssh host keys.  Once that's
> done, you shouldn't see
> this message ever again.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
> 



		
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