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clarify requirement for egd

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Damien Miller 2000-04-30 09:43:41 +10:00
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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL.
Zlib:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
OpenSSL:
OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater:
http://www.openssl.org/
RPMs of OpenSSL are available in the support/ directory of the OpenSSH
@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at:
http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/software/x11-ssh-askpass/index.html
If you are planning to use OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a Kernel random
number generator (/dev/urandom), you will need to install the Entropy
number generator (/dev/urandom), you may want to install the Entropy
Gathering Daemon (or similar). You will also need to specify the
--with-egd-pool option to ./configure.
--with-egd-pool option to ./configure. OpenSSH 2.0 includes some
peliminary built-in randomness collection, but it is not as well
tested as EGD.
EGD:
http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutly
sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone.
--with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable Entropy Gathering
Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You will need to
Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You may want to
use this if your Unix does not support the /dev/urandom device (or
similar). The file argument refers to the EGD pool file, not the
EGD program itself. Please refer to the EGD documentation.

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@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ all logins, not just when using password authentication.
OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4] and
Dante[6]. To build the GNOME[5] pass-phrase requester
(--with-gnome-askpass), you will need the GNOME libraries installed.
If you are building OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a kernel random
number pool (/dev/random), you will need to install EGD[1].
There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please
refer to http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/list.html for details on how