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Re: problem with RSA keys on HP-UX 11
From: |
David Douthitt |
Subject: |
Re: problem with RSA keys on HP-UX 11 |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:20:45 -0500 |
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 01:26 PM, Chip Seraphine wrote:
I had a similar issue with Solaris 2.8/intel. When I generated keys
on another machine (a Linux box) and copied them over, everything was
fine.
After much mucking about, I finally determined that the problem was
in the
openssl libraries I had installed on this box.
I've installed SSH (which uses SSL) on both HP-UX and Solaris for
Intel. As I recall, both systems have problems with not having a
suitable source of entropy to use; specifically, neither system
supports /dev/random.
I remember there was a patch for Solaris 8 and up to fix this; the
HP-UX solution was to use some other source of entropy (EGRP?). I seem
to recall SSH using various system statistics to generate enough
randomness for this purpose.
Does this provide any solutions for you all?
I never did use Cfengine under Solaris, but do use it (cfengine v2.0.4)
on HP-UX 10 and 11 every day.
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David Douthitt
david@douthitt.net
UNIX SysAdmin - HP/UX, UnixWare, Linux
LPIC-1, Linux+