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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:17:23 +0200
From: Lutz Jaenicke <Lutz.Jaenicke@aet.TU-Cottbus.DE>
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Subject: Re: STILL can't genereate openssh dsa key
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In-Reply-To: <549AB966B45DD311A58A0000E86CEA8D0CAED57B@postoffice.btitele.com>; from David.Edward.Shapiro@btitele.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:47:18AM -0400
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:47:18AM -0400, David Edward Shapiro wrote:
> I am stuck.  I installed the latest zlib, openssl, and openssh  2.9.x and
> prngd and egd on solaris 2.7 that had previously been running sshd2.  I can
> not make dsa keys.  A truss on the ssh-key  command that make install runs
> shows it cycling through getpid() and time() forever.  I tried egd first,
> and then prgnd next in hopes that those would fix the problem.  I have no
> clue what to do from here.  Has anybody seen this and what did you do? I
> copied another openssh dsa key from another system where I generated it, but
> it did not work.  I really want to get the issue resolved with why it can
> not generate dsa keys.  The openssh dsa keys do not seem to have host name
> in them.

To find out why the ssh-key command runs through getpid() and time() would
probable need utilization of a debugger, stepping through it.
Anyway: I suppose you are talking about ssh-keygen (with 'gen' at the end).
The choice of the entropy source is made at "configure" time, so installing
EGD/PRNGD after configure/make does not change the binaries.
The actual choice is listed at the end of the "configure" run. Please make
sure that all data are correct.

Best regards,
	Lutz
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