- Allow PRNGd entropy collection from localhost TCP socket. Replace

   "--with-egd-pool" configure option with "--with-prngd-socket" and
   "--with-prngd-port" options. Debugged and improved by Lutz Jaenicke
   <Lutz.Jaenicke@aet.TU-Cottbus.DE>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 47b071e1a..6778a2881 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -119,8 +119,13 @@ headers, for this to work.
 random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutely
 sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone.
 
---with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support 
-and to specify a EGD pool socket. Use this if your Unix lacks 
+--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.
+
+--with-prngd-port=portnum allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support 
+and to specify a EGD localhost TCP port. Use this if your Unix lacks 
 /dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy 
 collection support.
 
@@ -217,4 +222,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
 http://www.openssh.com/
 
 
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.41 2001/02/18 01:58:24 djm Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.42 2001/03/03 13:29:21 djm Exp $