Bug#760029: systemd: doesn't initialise RANDOM_SEED upon installation

[Felipe Sateler]

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:56:15 -0700 Raphael Geissert <geissert at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: systemd
> Source-Version: 208-8
> Tags: security
>
> Hi,
>
> At some point between squeeze and wheezy initscript started initialising the
> RANDOM_SEED file in its postinst by basically doing the equivalent of a
> "service urandom start". This feature doesn't actually seem to have been
> integrated into the systemd package - which I personally consider it to be a
> regression.
>
> Could you please then initialise RANDOM_SEED at the package installation
> time?

I'm not sure when do you want to run this. Is this for first-time
installation of systemd only?

When systemd is already installed and running,
systemd-random-seed.service should take care of writing the seed file
on shutdown.

Or do you mean that for some reason, systemd upgrades are a good time
to force a seed write?


Saludos