Bug 694048
| Summary: | /dev/random inaccessible by ssh-keygen (copy from 693420) | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | selinux-policy-targeted | Assignee: | Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.6 | CC: | dwalsh, iboverma, jwest, ksrot, mgrepl, mmalik, mvadkert, plyons, pm-eus, sgrubb, smueller |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | selinux-policy-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
The sshd service, ssh clients, and other SSH-aware utilities require access to the /dev/random and /dev/urandom random number generators. Prior to this update, SELinux incorrectly prevented the ssh-keygen utility from accessing the /dev/random device. This update adapts SELinux policies to allow this access, and ssh-keygen is now able to read data from /dev/random as expected.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-04 06:54:54 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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| Bug Depends On: | 693723 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-04-06 10:35:17 UTC
Fixed in selinux-policy-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1
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The sshd service, ssh clients, and other SSH-aware utilities require access to the /dev/random and /dev/urandom random number generators. Prior to this update, SELinux incorrectly prevented the ssh-keygen utility from accessing the /dev/random device. This update adapts SELinux policies to allow this access, and ssh-keygen is now able to read data from /dev/random as expected.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0481.html |