Use 'truss -p <sshd pid>' and on a workstation, ssh to the server, you should see the "open" or "open64" lines and should indicate /dev/random or /dev/urandom, etc. or 'truss -f -topen -p <sshd pid>' Sorry for the late summary, - Mike On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Mike's List wrote: > After I posted the summary, I received a couple of e-mails asking... > > How do you verify that /dev/random is in fact being used? > Openssh has built-in random number generation, and openssl > at sunfreeware.com compile to used PRNGD so you need PRNGD? > > I always thought if /dev/random doesn't exists the key wouldn't generate > and sshd wouldn't even be running and negotiate the protocol (note, telnet > was turn off on my server, so no telnet to fall back on). > > Any other procedures I can do to verify that /dev/random is in fact being > used? Everything on the server seems to indicate that ssh is working. > > > - Mike _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Apr 22 10:31:53 2002
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