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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:50:36 -0700
From:      Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To:        Tech Valley Internet - Tony Kivits <tony@techvalley.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/random in jails
Message-ID:  <20070719045036.GE27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070719044912.GD27888@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:49:12PM -0700, Christopher Cowart wrote:
> $ dd if=3D/dev/random bs=3D1 count=3D12 2>/dev/null | openssl base64
> Should give you a base64 encoding of some random data (base64 to prevent
> it from messing up your terminal) if /dev/random is working.

I meant to point if=3Djailroot/dev/random. Testing /dev/random for the
host OS isn't going to be too meaningful.

--=20
Chris Cowart
Lead Systems Administrator
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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