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Re: K1 images - final report?



On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Robert Millan wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:46:38AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
> >
> > As I am running out of time I am leaving the ssh entropy problem to be
> > solved by the user, a suitable file at /dev/urandom does the trick.  ssh
> > is on the first CD, but is not installed with initial.sh
>
> Why don't you just "cp /bin/bash /dev/urandom" in initial.sh?
>
> (and notify the user that /dev/urandom and ssh will have bad security)
>
Funny, I used /bin/bash when testing.  Would everyone end up with the same
key?

Phil.

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