Bug#641801: grub: grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 HANGS when run with root user

Fri Sep 16 12:04:03 UTC 2011

On 16.09.2011 13:05, Egon Ojamaa wrote:
> Then fill in passwords 2 times..
> It totally hangs. I waited like 30 minutes to get the hashed password and never got it.
>
Looks like you lack entropy. It's not a hang, just waiting for enough
entropy. Try pressing buttons, using disk and so on. In 1.99 we switched
from /dev/random to /dev/urandom since urandom is good enough for our
purposes. I recommend backporting this

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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