Are you using PRNG to generate your random pool of data??? I had a problem
along the same lines in hp-ux 11.00. So i'll relay to you the help I got.
Basically, hp-ux does not support a random number generator like /dev/random
in linux. Therefore, you need an outside program to generate a random pool
of data. I used egd, you can get it from here
http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
Its a simple perl script that runs in the background gathering random data
from commands. I start mine in an rc script at startup time like this
/usr/local/bin/egd.pl /dev/entropy
and then point the configure script in ssh to that pool of random data
./configure --with-egd-pool=/dev/entropy
That should get rid of your error message I think. It also
Jason
>
> Hi,
>
> I managed to compile openssh on an old HP/Unix system
> (HP-UX niit1 A.09.01 A 9000/730). I needed to change a couple of
> functions to make it compile. But when I try to start ssh I get
> the following message:
>
> PRNG initialisation failed -- exiting.
>
> Does anybody know how I can get this to work?
> Guenther
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