DaemonForums  

Go Back   DaemonForums > OpenBSD > OpenBSD General

OpenBSD General Other questions regarding OpenBSD which do not fit in any of the categories below.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1   (View Single Post)  
Old 9th June 2024
spauldo spauldo is offline
Real Name: Jeff Spaulding
New User
 
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 4
Default Changing /etc/random.seed From Another Machine

Hey all,

Is the /etc/random.seed file used at any time besides boot and shutdown?

I'm looking at making my diskless firewall completely read-only (I know it's unsupported but it's a home firewall and I'm tinkering). I figured I could dump 512 bytes of random data into it once a day on the NFS host.

Grepping around didn't turn up any references to the file outside /etc/rc and some boot-related binaries, but I figured it's best to ask since if I'm wrong it could cause some really hard-to-track intermittent bugs.
Reply With Quote
  #2   (View Single Post)  
Old 10th June 2024
jggimi's Avatar
jggimi jggimi is offline
More noise than signal
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 8,033
Default

https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10324 may help.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
OpenBSD First seed for OpenBSD/powerpc64 planted by kettenis@ fvgit News 0 18th May 2020 08:03 PM
cannot open cd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory Amithapr OpenBSD Installation and Upgrading 11 28th September 2017 09:57 AM
random wallpaper with feh? ramib OpenBSD Packages and Ports 2 16th February 2015 03:45 PM
random OS comparisons barti Other BSD and UNIX/UNIX-like 22 31st December 2014 10:01 AM
RSA keys not as random as they should be J65nko News 1 16th February 2012 10:09 PM


All times are GMT. The time now is 10:02 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content copyright © 2007-2010, the authors
Daemon image copyright ©1988, Marshall Kirk McKusick