Re: broke my OpenSSH how?

[Jeff Bachtel <sebastion@irelandmail.com>]

I had the same problem (check the archives)... I honestly don't know
what happened, if the dependence on arandom was recent, or whether its
permissions got changed temporarily in one of the base sets...

jeff

> What i can't understand and hence my question is that ssh was working fine 
> up to Oct 27 when a user sent me an email saying scp was broke. Making 
> /dev/arandom group and other readable fixed it. So why work and then not 
> work? Was one of the other random devices being used previously and then 
> arandom selected? I swear i never changed permissions of the device files!
> 
> stubing:dev {161} ll ?random
> 0 crw-------  1 root  wheel  119,   4 Oct 31 18:43 arandom
> 0 crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  119,   3 Jul 14 20:06 prandom
> 0 crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  119,   1 Jul 14 20:06 srandom
> 0 crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  119,   2 Oct 31 18:43 urandom