[20097] in Athena Bugs
Problem Running SSH on Mandela-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Fri Jan 11 15:36:23 2002
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From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
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Hello,
I'm having a problem getting SSH to work on Mandela-1.mit.edu, my
private Athena workstation. I spoke with Oliver Thomas, who helped
me to identify some symptoms:
My sshd hangs while trying to initialize the random number generator:
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mandela-1.mit.edu# /etc/athena/sshd -d
debug: sshd version 1.2.26 [sparc-sun-solaris2.8]
debug: Initializing random number generator; seed file /etc/ssh_random_seed
^C
Received signal 2.
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I also find that ssh-keygen hangs while trying to initialize the
random number generator:
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mandela-1.mit.edu# ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N ''
Initializing random number generator...
^C
mandela-1.mit.edu#
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I spoke with Jonathon Weiss and he determined that cryptorand is not
running on my machine:
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mandela-1.mit.edu [29] [3:26pm]>ksu
Authenticated rclarke@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Account root: authorization for rclarke@ATHENA.MIT.EDU successful
Changing uid to root (0)
mandela-1.mit.edu# /etc/init.d/cryptorand
Usage: /etc/init.d/cryptorand { start | stop }
mandela-1.mit.edu# /etc/init.d/cryptorand start
cryptorand: /var/etc/cryptorand: No such file or directory
cryptorand: Rebuilding state file
mandela-1.mit.edu# ps -ef | grep random
root 877 862 1 15:28:31 pts/2 0:00 grep random
mandela-1.mit.edu# ps -ef | grep crypt
root 879 862 1 15:28:46 pts/2 0:00 grep crypt
mandela-1.mit.edu#
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My workstation is a Sun SPARCstation 4. Although I have a new
Sunblade on order, it has not arrived yet. I will appreciate
whatever assistance you can give me.
Rocklyn E. Clarke
MIT Information Systems
