Subject: sshd rnd requirements?
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/04/2000 14:00:48
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To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@netbsd.org>
Cc: tech-security@netbsd.org
Subject: sshd rnd requirements?
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

| Log Message:
| enable rnd device.  they are now mandatory for ssh/sshd support,
| so it makes more sense to enable it.
| please disable them if there's any issues, but in that case, in-tree
| ssh/sshd won't work.

Why is this mandatory? Is there a discussion of the history somewhere?
It seems like this reduces flexibility in a bunch of cases, as well
as portability of our sshd (not our primary goal, true, but...).

--jhawk

| Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 06:35:57 +0300 (EEST)
| From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@netbsd.org>
| Message-Id: <200010040335.GAA02142@netbsd.hut.fi>
| Subject: CVS commit: syssrc
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| Module Name:	syssrc
| Committed By:	itojun
| Date:		Wed Oct  4 03:35:56 UTC 2000
| 
| Modified Files:
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/alpha/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/amiga/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/arm26/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/atari/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/hp300/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/luna68k/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/next68k/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/ofppc/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/sun3/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/vax/conf: GENERIC
| 	  syssrc/sys/arch/x68k/conf: GENERIC
| 
| Log Message:
| enable rnd device.  they are now mandatory for ssh/sshd support,
| so it makes more sense to enable it.
| please disable them if there's any issues, but in that case, in-tree
| ssh/sshd won't work.
| 
| 
| To generate a diff of this commit:
| cvs rdiff -r1.166 -r1.167 syssrc/sys/arch/alpha/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.149 -r1.150 syssrc/sys/arch/amiga/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.11 -r1.12 syssrc/sys/arch/arm26/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.72 -r1.73 syssrc/sys/arch/atari/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.60 -r1.61 syssrc/sys/arch/hp300/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.10 -r1.11 syssrc/sys/arch/luna68k/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.35 -r1.36 syssrc/sys/arch/next68k/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.32 -r1.33 syssrc/sys/arch/ofppc/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.73 -r1.74 syssrc/sys/arch/sun3/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.80 -r1.81 syssrc/sys/arch/vax/conf/GENERIC
| cvs rdiff -r1.52 -r1.53 syssrc/sys/arch/x68k/conf/GENERIC