Re: Want to help fix xdm on MIPS
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:21:18PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Edit xc/programs/xdm/Imakefile to:
> * add DEV_RANDOM to the defines passed to the compiler ifdef
> LinuxArchitecture
> * add ArmArchitecture, IA64Architecture, and MipsArchitecture to the
> list to the list for those for which FRAGILE_DEV_MEM is defined
> (will this actually solve the problem even in the absence of the prior
> fix?)
FRAGILE_DEV_MEM just skips the first MB of memory. This is unlikely to
be o.k. for a all architectures.
>
> What do you guys think? These #defines only affect genauth.c.
So we set "#define DEV_RANEOM /dev/urandom"? Does this have an impact on
security?
-- Guido
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