* /dev/random, /dev/urandom
@ 2003-01-08 20:27 Jamie Risk
2003-01-08 21:22 ` Ray Olszewski
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jamie Risk @ 2003-01-08 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
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?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: /dev/random, /dev/urandom
2003-01-08 20:27 /dev/random, /dev/urandom Jamie Risk
@ 2003-01-08 21:22 ` Ray Olszewski
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ray Olszewski @ 2003-01-08 21:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-newbie
At 03:27 PM 1/8/03 -0500, Jamie Risk wrote:
>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?
Nothing serious that I can think of (though I suppose a malicious user
might "use up" the system's entropy). The man page for "random" recommends
mode 644 for both devices. Standard Debian installs make them world readable.
--
-------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--------
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2003-01-08 21:22 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2003-01-08 20:27 /dev/random, /dev/urandom Jamie Risk
2003-01-08 21:22 ` Ray Olszewski
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.