From 0a38730c4bc95c7e9152ffd22459e9acc2bd0f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:13:05 -0400 Subject: added suggestion for speeding up key generation on remote systems. --- .../bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'website/bugs') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3