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

[Colin Watson]

Source: grub2
Source-Version: 1.99-1

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:04:03PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 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

With wheezy upcoming, I'm unlikely to have time to do a backport (though
I don't object if somebody else wants to sort out some important pending
squeeze bugs); but I might as well at least close this in wheezy, since
that has 1.99.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]