On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 03:25:44PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > ssh looks to /dev/urandom for its entropy to build its keys, but urandom > does not exist in the GNU system. > > Is there a work-round? I want to include ssh in initial.sh You can try attaching the random translator to /dev/urandom. IIRC, a recent useful version can be found at http://mactest98.ruk.cuni.cz/~hramrach/random/ since Marcus doesn't seem to have it kicking around on alpha.gnu.org Simon