Re: Proving OpenSSH 3.4p1 is using /dev/urandom (Solaris 9 ossh Vs OpenBSD ossh)

From: Bennett Crowell (bcrowell@btitelecom.net)
Date: 07/22/02 

Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bennett Crowell <bcrowell@btitelecom.net>
To: "Surinder S. Dio" <S.S.Dio@gre.ac.uk>

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Surinder S. Dio wrote:

>
> So either I'm compiling up OpenSSH incorrectly, or the Sun SSH is
> significantly different or I'm misunderstanding my lsof output or
> something else :-(
>
> Could someone point how I can guarantee that /dev/urandom is being
> used and how the Sun version managed to use it. Am I missing a
> compile/configure option?

You should be able to use truss to check that the process opens that
device.

bc

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