The attached patch should apply cleanly to the Debian urandom. My apologies for attaching the wrong patch previously. I picked up the Ubuntu patch instead of the Debian patch.
>From 8d1f17feef351aa397d17bd4515f2d304be73393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Denker <j...@av8n.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:21:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Do not "rm -f $SAVEDFILE" because that is a Bad Idea when $SAVEDFILE is a symlink. Overwriting the file is quite sufficient. --- urandom | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/urandom b/urandom index 5e6121c..3046ac5 100755 --- a/urandom +++ b/urandom @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ case "$1" in then cat "$SAVEDFILE" >/dev/urandom fi - rm -f $SAVEDFILE # Write a new seed into $SAVEDFILE because re-using a seed # compromises security. Each time we re-seed, we want the # seed to be as different as possible. -- 1.5.6.5
