Mike Eggleston schrieb: > On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Tomasz Chmielewski might have said: >> Stracing it leads me to an empty /dev/random. >> >> After looking at man pages, I see there is no option to specify an >> alternative random file location (i.e., /dev/urandom). >> >> Is recompilation the only way to get around this problem? > > What about making a symlink from /dev/urandom to /dev/random? > > Mike > > # ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random # ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/random': File exists I know, I could (re)move /dev/random first, but then other programs won't have real random data where they usually expect it (/dev/random). Question is, do other programs really need a true /dev/random on a machine running IMAP/S and POP/S... Another "workaround" is disabling APOP in imapd.conf, but it potentially lowers the security... The best way would be connecting a mouse, keyboard, enabling X and placing some gamer to play a shooter - this should generate enough entropy... ;) -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
