On 02/11/2013 02:34 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:44:12AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Oh, craptastic. X used to hash /dev/mem to get a random seed. It >> should have stopped that long ago, and used /dev/[u]random. > > That's because debian still has this WINGs window manager which hasn't > seen any new releases since 2005: http://voins.program.ru/wdm/ and I'm > using it because I don't want the pompous crap of the other display > managers. > > But this one uses /dev/mem as a randomFile only by default - there's a > configuration variable DisplayManager.randomFile which can be pointed > away from /dev/mem so that's easily fixable. > > Mind you, I wouldnt've caught the issue if I wasn't using this ancient > thing in its default settings :o). > The X server itself used to do that. Are you saying that wdm is a *privileged process*? -hpa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>