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authorDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2002-04-17 12:22:58 +1000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2002-04-17 12:22:58 +1000
commitbd63874d4bc3048f5dfbba8dc5f02fd57e9bdc7b (patch)
treea61a0d4bc9a19f4def81caedb029ad25d83629cd /INSTALL
parent66480f188ec4cb55006a32763b41cf07cc5da781 (diff)
downloadopenssh-git-bd63874d4bc3048f5dfbba8dc5f02fd57e9bdc7b.tar.gz
- (djm) Tell users to configure /dev/random support into OpenSSL in INSTALL
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@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your system
supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and
HP-UX 11.
+NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
+OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of
+/dev/random. If you don't you will have to rely on ssh-rand-helper, which
+is inferior to a good kernel-based solution.
+
PAM:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
@@ -218,4 +223,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
http://www.openssh.com/
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.51 2002/04/14 13:16:05 djm Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.52 2002/04/17 02:23:02 djm Exp $