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Old 10-17-2002
file //.ssh/prng_seed is not a regular file

Hi all...
On all of my solaris servers (5.5.1,5.6,5.7,5.8 and one 5.9) i get this error message:

sshd[7636]: fatal: PRNG seedfile //.ssh/prng_seed is not a regular file...

Knowing that i have no way to recompile correctly the sources, how can i fix this problem?

I'm using openssh, openssl, and egd on these servers.

Any help would be great...

I've already done some search on google, with no success...

Thanx...
penguin-friend
# 2  
Old 10-17-2002
The message

Quote:
is not a regular file...
sounds to me, there is a problem with type file permissions
# 3  
Old 10-17-2002
Tried that

I did a chmod 777 on the file, and this doesn't seem to change anything...
I then moved the file to another name.
When i relaunch a ssh command, the file is created: here there is no error message in messages
At the next ssh comand, the file is created with 600 permissions, and i get the same error message in /var/adm/messages....


Any other ideas?
penguin-friend
# 4  
Old 10-17-2002
I even tried to create myself the file:
vi prng_seed and i put in it my first name (Jason).
I still get the same error message.
Did i mention that the file prng_seed created is a "data" file...
Don't know if this will help...
penguin-friend
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