On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:28:51AM +0300, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> On 21 December 2010 G. 22:59:22 Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Go look at the function random_seed() in /usr/src/etc/rc
>
> And it's definitely worth looking... Patch below.
Believe it or not, but this diff has been circling around developers
already a few days ago.
-Otto
>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Vadim Zhukov
>
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>
> Index: rc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc,v
> retrieving revision 1.345
> diff -u -p -r1.345 rc
> --- rc 8 Nov 2010 19:44:36 -0000 1.345
> +++ rc 22 Dec 2010 05:25:37 -0000
> @@ -102,14 +102,12 @@ wsconsctl_conf()
> random_seed()
> {
> if [ -f /var/db/host.random -a "X$random_seed_done" = "X" ]; then
> - dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=64 \
> - > /dev/null 2>&1
> dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/arandom bs=1024 count=64 \
> > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> # reset seed file, so that if a shutdown-less reboot occurs,
> # the next seed is not a repeat
> - dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
> + dd if=/dev/arandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
> > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> random_seed_done=1
> @@ -312,7 +310,7 @@ mount -s /var >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> # if there's no /var/db/host.random, make one through /dev/urandom
> if [ ! -f /var/db/host.random ]; then
> - dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
> + dd if=/dev/arandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
> >/dev/null 2>&1
> chmod 600 /var/db/host.random >/dev/null 2>&1
> else
