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authorDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2002-04-17 12:22:58 +1000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2002-04-17 12:22:58 +1000
commitbd63874d4bc3048f5dfbba8dc5f02fd57e9bdc7b (patch)
treea61a0d4bc9a19f4def81caedb029ad25d83629cd
parent66480f188ec4cb55006a32763b41cf07cc5da781 (diff)
- (djm) Tell users to configure /dev/random support into OpenSSL in INSTALL
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--INSTALL7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5c6cecd6..ea628158 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+20020417
+ - (djm) Tell users to configure /dev/random support into OpenSSL in INSTALL
+
20020415
- (djm) Unbreak "make install". Fix from Darren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>
- (stevesk) bsd-cygwin_util.[ch] BSD license from Corinna Vinschen
@@ -8248,4 +8251,4 @@
- Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp
- Released 1.0pre1
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2056 2002/04/16 04:10:09 tim Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2057 2002/04/17 02:22:58 djm Exp $
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3dc3fca6..276083c3 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your system
supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and
HP-UX 11.
+NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
+OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of
+/dev/random. If you don't you will have to rely on ssh-rand-helper, which
+is inferior to a good kernel-based solution.
+
PAM:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
@@ -218,4 +223,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
http://www.openssh.com/
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.51 2002/04/14 13:16:05 djm Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.52 2002/04/17 02:23:02 djm Exp $