Bug 68377
| Summary: | random generator not initialised properly? | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | iwi |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-07-09 16:27:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Closing this myself, as reporter. This is not a bug.
I hadn't read the script carefully enough: it is a previous line that
initialises the random generator ("cat /var/tmp/random-seed >/dev/urandom").
Sorry to take your time.
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From the "start" section of /etc/rc.d/init.d/random action $"Initializing random number generator: " /bin/true chmod 600 $random_seed dd if=/dev/urandom of=$random_seed count=1 bs=512 2>/dev/null I could be mistaken, but it appears to me that the input and output of dd are the wrong way round for this to actually feed any entropy into the random number generator.