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Re: SSH2: "PRNG is not seeded"



>--- Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Sascha Retzki wrote:
>
>> Hi listmembers,
>>
>> My Debian GNU/Hurd K5 can't use SSH because of the error
>> message "RNG is not seeded", Exit code is 255 !
>> My /etc/apt/sources.list :
>> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
>> Compiling from source fails because of MAXPATHLEN :/
>> Any tips?
>>
>
>Have you seeded /dev/urandom?
>
>Some entropy is available in /cdrom/upgrade/random.  Delete a sizable
>proportion from the start of the file before copying to /dev/urandom.
>This is more secure than copying bash to the same point!
>
>Phil.
>

Thank you Philip Charles, Michael Banck, AMS,

No I have not seeded anything ;) .. It worked, thx a lot guys 


WBR

Sascha Retzki

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