/dev/random and passwd

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 03:19, Goetz Bock wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01 '06 at 11:30, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > maybe it is a good idea to add a config option to the passwd applet to
> > > use /dev/random or /dev/urandom ?
> >
> > Default it to /dev/urandom (never blocking is clearly best for embedded)
> > and when we grow CONFIG_NITPICK that's something to hide behind it...
>
> Well, you always can rename /dev/random to /dev/random.real and copy
> /dev/urandom to /dev/random.

No.

> I do this on all my virtualised boxes 
> (once ULM now Xen) where I don't get any real entropy. At last not
> enough.
>
> (OTOH I'm still hoping for a hwrandom like driver that get's entropy
> from the host ...)

UML has had a hwrandom driver getting entropy from the host for almost a year 
now.

Rob
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