53f527be190 - symlinking /dev/urandom into raddb/certs

A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Mon Mar 9 14:05:24 CET 2015


Hi,

> I just got surprised by this; one possible side effect that might
> have been missed here, it stops you doing this:
> 
> grep -r something /etc/raddb
> 
> ...as it spins forever on the random device.
> 
> Not sure why I've never seen it before when testing 3.0.x

because its new?   i'm not sure why theres the symlink..... as its quite easy to just define the
urandom in the eap module...and if its not int he right place then a symlink would b0rk anyway...I
cant think how it'd help a chroot'd system either (I've got a feeling that is why its there)

alan


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