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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2008-08-07 00:13:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2008-08-07 00:13:05 -0400 |
| commit | 0a38730c4bc95c7e9152ffd22459e9acc2bd0f45 (patch) | |
| tree | eee9ed23c78656c2f02a18e08ba7802d878c79ba /website | |
| parent | cd8067b949b1910b9d8c8ce4ffd82b2782884db7 (diff) | |
added suggestion for speeding up key generation on remote systems.
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| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn index 0109b42..8f1da5a 100644 --- a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn @@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and "massaging" it. This won't work for a machine that's out of physical range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway. + +One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator +install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a +non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count +somewhat. |