On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Markus Weis wrote:
> Hello,
> the connections from one system to another system via OpenSSH 2.1.1 is
> sometimes very slow.
> During connection we get the following messages:
>
> SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
> Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
> debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> debug: Command 'ls -alni /tmp' timed out
> debug: Command 'last' timed out
> debug: Command 'df' exit status was 1
These commands are used to seed the random number generator in
OpenSSH. Have a look the the /etc/ssh_prng_cmds file for the full
list. The commands appear in the debug log only if they return a
non-zero exit code or timeout.
To speed up connections, you may want to disable some of the slower
commands, or run a persistant entropy store such as EGD. (or upgrade
to a Unix which support /dev/random)
-d
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