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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) |
- (djm) Tell users to configure /dev/random support into OpenSSL in INSTALL
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-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 | |||
17 | supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and | 17 | supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and |
18 | HP-UX 11. | 18 | HP-UX 11. |
19 | 19 | ||
20 | NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure | ||
21 | OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of | ||
22 | /dev/random. If you don't you will have to rely on ssh-rand-helper, which | ||
23 | is inferior to a good kernel-based solution. | ||
24 | |||
20 | PAM: | 25 | PAM: |
21 | http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ | 26 | http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ |
22 | 27 | ||
@@ -218,4 +223,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at | |||
218 | http://www.openssh.com/ | 223 | http://www.openssh.com/ |
219 | 224 | ||
220 | 225 | ||
221 | $Id: INSTALL,v 1.51 2002/04/14 13:16:05 djm Exp $ | 226 | $Id: INSTALL,v 1.52 2002/04/17 02:23:02 djm Exp $ |