[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#548408: Bug#548408: [slapd] missing entropy, caused by failed access to /dev/(u)random

[Russ Allbery]

Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> writes:

> is cause by 

> $ ls -l /dev/*random
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 1, 8 26. Sep 09:41 /dev/random
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 1, 9 26. Sep 09:42 /dev/urandom

Why are the permissions and ownership on your random devices broken?  The
standard permissions on a stock Debian system are:

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 2009-08-24 13:09 /dev/random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 2009-08-24 13:09 /dev/urandom

You're not the only person to have seen this problem, but the OpenLDAP
packages are definitely not the ones changing the permissions.  I suspect
there's a broken package that's doing this.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>