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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.06.2015 um 16:43 schrieb 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?

Raphael, seems you haven't answered Felipe's questions yet.
Can you elaborate exactly what you have in mind here and why.



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