Re: Entropy is blocking

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:12:47 -0600 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:29 UTC

In the last episode (Feb 24), gahn said:
> what exactly is this entropy thing? it seems to be
> killing some processes such as sshd
> 
> freebsd# /etc/rc.d/sshd start
> /etc/rc.d/sshd? WARNING: Setting entropy source to
> blocking mod.
> ==================================================
> ......
> Just hit <enter> for fast+insecure startup
> 
> ==================================================

That happens the first time you reboot after installing the system.
There is no stored entropy, and the system needs some randomness so it
can generate secure ssh host keys.  Once that's done, you shouldn't see
this message ever again.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson_at_allantgroup.com