[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#679972: initscripts: urandom should be "started" in postinst

[Roger Leigh]

tags 679972 +pending
clone 679972 -1
retitle -1 [squeeze] urandom should be "started" in postinst
tags -1 +squeeze
thanks

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:48:27PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> TL;DR; run "etc/init.d/urandom start" in postinst
> 
> On the first boot after installation with d-i, the seed file doesn't exist, 
> therefore no entropy is added to the kernel's RNG.
> 
> Thanks to #596482, fixed in 2.88dsf-23, the date is also included, so there 
> is at least some entropy.

Fixed in git.  I'll upload once the current version has migrated to
testing.

> This should probably be fixed in squeeze too, via a SPU. I don't think it 
> warrants a DSA.

Sure.  I'll do some testing to make sure what's in git works OK, then
do that.  Cloned a separate bug to make sure it's not forgotten.


Thanks,
Roger

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