From: "Jamie Risk" <jamie_risk@yahoo.ca>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: /dev/random, /dev/urandom
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:27:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avi1hh$hai$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
I'm compiling OpenSSH, and to access /dev/random, and /dev/urandom, the
configure script needs to be run as root.
What sort of trauma am I in for if I make those device permissions read
accessible by everyone?
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2003-01-08 20:27 Jamie Risk [this message]
2003-01-08 21:22 ` /dev/random, /dev/urandom Ray Olszewski
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