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| author | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2002-04-17 12:22:58 +1000 |
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| committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2002-04-17 12:22:58 +1000 |
| commit | bd63874d4bc3048f5dfbba8dc5f02fd57e9bdc7b (patch) | |
| tree | a61a0d4bc9a19f4def81caedb029ad25d83629cd /INSTALL | |
| parent | 66480f188ec4cb55006a32763b41cf07cc5da781 (diff) | |
| download | openssh-git-bd63874d4bc3048f5dfbba8dc5f02fd57e9bdc7b.tar.gz | |
- (djm) Tell users to configure /dev/random support into OpenSSL in INSTALL
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -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 $ |