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| author | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2000-05-09 15:03:37 +1000 |
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| committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2000-05-09 15:03:37 +1000 |
| commit | 54057c2b9be4270b20db004c76851b04cf299620 (patch) | |
| tree | e6bd752504811d3873ba16bc432ab91ecd65cb3e /INSTALL | |
| parent | 0e963ef3c5ce28a5b47395569858a90a4e7a1e87 (diff) | |
- Doc updates
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 15 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -29,12 +29,8 @@ passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at: http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/software/x11-ssh-askpass/index.html -If you are planning to use OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a Kernel random -number generator (/dev/urandom), you may want to install the Entropy -Gathering Daemon (or similar). You will also need to specify the ---with-egd-pool option to ./configure. OpenSSH 2.0 includes some -peliminary built-in randomness collection, but it is not as well -tested as EGD. +The Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is supported if you have a system which +lacks /dev/random and don't want to use OpenSSH's internal entropy collection. EGD: http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ @@ -98,10 +94,9 @@ random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutly sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone. --with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable Entropy Gathering -Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You may want to -use this if your Unix does not support the /dev/urandom device (or -similar). The file argument refers to the EGD pool file, not the -EGD program itself. Please refer to the EGD documentation. +Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. Use this if your +Unix lacks /dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin +entropy collection support. --with-lastlog=FILE will specify the location of the lastlog file. ./configure searches a few locations for lastlog, but may not find |