On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Kevin M. McGrath wrote:
> howdy,
>
> I'm getting the following error when I try & use the ssh command:
>
> couldn't read entropy commands file /usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds:
> No such file or directory
>
> any ideas on what I did wrong with my ssh install?
>
> tia,
> kevin
> I installed the prng package when I installed openssh recently. It went very smoothly. Looking at the openssh readme, I see I must have got it from here:
>
> http://www.aet.tu cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
>
> It's a nicely done software package, IMHO. I don't know which ssh product you have, but if it is openssh, there is something in the INSTALL file that describes the use of --with-prngd-socket switch to the configure.
>
>
> ---Ann Cantelow
I Installed the prngd package.
Comment out the Tru64 stuff in the makefile for prngd
I had to do some other tweaking to get prngd to finally work correctly
but I kinda did things on the fly, once again!, and didn't take any
notes. But the stuff I had to do seemed pretty straightforward so if a
Tru64 newbie like me figured it out hopefully you can too. I know that's
a lame response but next time I'll document what I do and keep us all
from re-inventing the wheel for the nth time. Where have I heard that
before?
below from SSH INSTALL file, this is the key thing you need to do:
--with-prngd-socket=/some/file allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support
and to specify a PRNGd socket. Use this if your Unix lacks /dev/random
and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy collection support.
"./configure --prefix=/opt --with-prngd-socket=/var/run/egd-pool"
the above worked for me.
I had some problems with zlib.h again but I copied the file into the
same directory as compress.c This was during the ssh build process.
Happy Holidays to all!
regards,
kevin
Received on Fri Dec 21 2001 - 17:02:33 NZDT