Re: OpenSSH/OpenSSL install on Solaris8

[Andrew Shugg <andrew_(_at_)_neep_(_dot_)_com_(_dot_)_au>]

BOFH said:
> On the exposed box, the only software I had installed was the Solaris
> Core, some extra shells (bash, ksh, etc.) and the YASSP package.  No
> window managers, development libraries, nothing...
> 
> The install appeared to go smoothly, but on trying to execute the
> ssh-keygen utility, the program appeared to execute, but then
> hung.  Running strings on the build box pointed out some of the shared
> libraries that I did not have, so I installed them as well.  Same result,
> ssh-keygen and ssh client both hang.  The sshd server, exites complaining
> that it cannot find it's hostkey file (well, yes... since I can't generate
> them, it can't find them).

Solaris does not by default have a /dev/random device.  Install the
SKI-* packages off the Solaris CD, or something like EGD which can
provide a hashed random pool similar to the Linux kernel via a Perl
script running as a daemon with a named pipe.

Andrew.

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