diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 5c6cecd6d..ea6281589 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +20020417 + - (djm) Tell users to configure /dev/random support into OpenSSL in INSTALL + 20020415 - (djm) Unbreak "make install". Fix from Darren Tucker - (stevesk) bsd-cygwin_util.[ch] BSD license from Corinna Vinschen @@ -8248,4 +8251,4 @@ - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp - Released 1.0pre1 -$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2056 2002/04/16 04:10:09 tim Exp $ +$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.2057 2002/04/17 02:22:58 djm Exp $ diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3dc3fca68..276083c34 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your system supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and HP-UX 11. +NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure +OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of +/dev/random. If you don't you will have to rely on ssh-rand-helper, which +is inferior to a good kernel-based solution. + PAM: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ @@ -218,4 +223,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at http://www.openssh.com/ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.51 2002/04/14 13:16:05 djm Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.52 2002/04/17 02:23:02 djm Exp $