/dev/random and passwd

[Goetz Bock]

On Wed, Feb 01 '06 at 11:30, Rob Landley wrote:
> > maybe it is a good idea to add a config option to the passwd applet to use
> > /dev/random or /dev/urandom ?
> 
> Default it to /dev/urandom (never blocking is clearly best for embedded) and 
> when we grow CONFIG_NITPICK that's something to hide behind it...

Well, you always can rename /dev/random to /dev/random.real and copy
/dev/urandom to /dev/random.  I do this on all my virtualised boxes
(once ULM now Xen) where I don't get any real entropy. At last not
enough.

(OTOH I'm still hoping for a hwrandom like driver that get's entropy
from the host ...)
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