diff options
| author | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2001-03-04 00:29:20 +1100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2001-03-04 00:29:20 +1100 |
| commit | d0ccb989c2ccb190bf81819c4b6418d63c682538 (patch) | |
| tree | eb7d3f8dde263b16b1d1b4e21d40bd7f8c1a4c85 /INSTALL | |
| parent | f85b4d76705035e495545c84a922f032447414bd (diff) | |
- Allow PRNGd entropy collection from localhost TCP socket. Replace
"--with-egd-pool" configure option with "--with-prngd-socket" and
"--with-prngd-port" options. Debugged and improved by Lutz Jaenicke
<Lutz.Jaenicke@aet.TU-Cottbus.DE>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -119,8 +119,13 @@ headers, for this to work. random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutely sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone. ---with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support -and to specify a EGD pool socket. Use this if your Unix lacks +--with-prngd-socket=/some/file allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD +support and to specify a PRNGd socket. Use this if your Unix lacks +/dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy +collection support. + +--with-prngd-port=portnum allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support +and to specify a EGD localhost TCP port. Use this if your Unix lacks /dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy collection support. @@ -217,4 +222,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at http://www.openssh.com/ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.41 2001/02/18 01:58:24 djm Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.42 2001/03/03 13:29:21 djm Exp $ |