Re: openssh 3.9p1 hangs on hp-ux 11.0

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:07:38 +0000 (UTC)

In article <1L2pd.2$My2.1@fe09.lga>, Asya <lisansa@smarts.com> wrote:
>Thank you for your response. It did actually fix the problem.
>In a sense of security....will it mess anything up? will it make openssh
>less secure? Should i try installing prngd instead?

It probably won't make any difference on HP-UX.

The re-exec is there for platforms that do exec-time randomization of
things like library offsets and ProPolice canaries. On those platforms
it results in increased security, but AFAIK HP-UX doesn't do anything
like that so it should make no difference. 

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