PRNG is not set while running sshd

saurin · 10-09-2009, 09:57 AM

when i run sshd it is throwing error "PRNG is not seeded", there are working node present, random and urandom under /dev/. What may be the problem?

# /tmp/sshd
PRNG is not seeded

/tmp # ls -l /dev/random
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8, 1 Jan 1 08:32 /dev/random
/tmp # ls -l /dev/urandom
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9, 1 Jan 1 08:31 /dev/urandom

TB0ne · 10-10-2009, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saurin

when i run sshd it is throwing error "PRNG is not seeded", there are working node present, random and urandom under /dev/. What may be the problem?

# /tmp/sshd
PRNG is not seeded

/tmp # ls -l /dev/random
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8, 1 Jan 1 08:32 /dev/random
/tmp # ls -l /dev/urandom
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9, 1 Jan 1 08:31 /dev/urandom

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