Subject: Re: no RSA with openssl on m68k systems with 1.5_ALPHA2?
To: Thorsten Frueauf <milano@zhadum.de>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/04/2000 07:19:54
>> this is now beyond me... could you try run a gdb session on ssh,
>> and see where it chokes?
>I just got an idea while ktracing sshd:
>
>[...]
> 20825 sshd CALL open(0x409fb9a,0,0x1b6)
> 20825 sshd NAMI "/dev/urandom"
> 20825 sshd RET open -1 errno 6 Device not configured
> 20825 sshd CALL getpid
> 20825 sshd RET getpid 20825/0x5159
> 20825 sshd CALL getpid
> 20825 sshd RET getpid 20825/0x5159
> 20825 sshd CALL write(0x2,0xffefdff0,0x34)
> 20825 sshd GIO fd 2 wrote 52 bytes
> "no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto. See ssl(8)
>[...]
>
>Is it possilbe that rsa support only works if "pseudo-device rnd" is
>compiled in the kernel?
>
>At least I have it in my kernel on i386 and sparc where sshd works and don't
>have it in the kernel for amiga and hp300 (its not activated in GENERIC there
>either...). I will recompile a kernel with rnd and see if that fixes the
>sshd daemon, but its already late and it will take some time on m68k, so
>don't expect feedback that soon :)
i'll try using a kernel without RND device and see if your issue
repeats. please hold.
itojun