On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:36:27AM +0000, Paul Reilly wrote:
> I've installed OpenSSH 2.3.0 on a Tru64 system, Since it has no
> /dev/random, I installed the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD)
> in /etc/entropy and OpenSSH works fine, until you want to use the entropy
> pool. Running ssh-keygen produces the following error:
>
> Couldn't connect to EGD socket "/etc/entropy": Permission denied
> Entropy collection failed and entropy exhausted
>
> The permissions appear to right (r-x by other) so I'm assuming
> there must be some other problem. Has anyone seen this before?
The permissions are wrong. The EGD interface also requires write access
(the client says "give me N bytes"), so it must be "w" for those users
accessing it.
As of PRNGD version 0.9.4 on startup "srwxrwxrwx" permissions are created
by default (override per command line).
On HP-UX srwxrwxrwx is the default so I didn't not this problem myself.
PRNGD 0.9.4 is available since 2 hours :-)
Best regards,
Lutz
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