> Ok peeps, here an interesting one. It's got me stumped.
> I have a passwd program which access /dev/random before it changes a
> users password. Thing is hangs for no reason before completing.
>
> Running strace passwd tells me that when it tries to read from
> /dev/random it just hangs.
B
* Jamie Carl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Ok peeps, here an interesting one. It's got me stumped.
> I have a passwd program which access /dev/random before it changes a
> users password. Thing is hangs for no reason before completing.
>
> Running strace passwd tells me that when it tries to rea
IIRC, that is the correct behaviour when your system does not have
enough random "information". That is, it waits for system entropy to
generate some more. Or, I may have completely forgotten the real reason
and pulled this from my arse. :-)
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Ok peeps, here an interesting one. It's got me stumped.
I have a passwd program which access /dev/random before it changes a
users password. Thing is hangs for no reason before completing.
Running strace passwd tells me that when it tries to read from
/dev/random it just hangs.
Has anyone seen
