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authorPascal Rigaux <pixel@mandriva.com>2008-12-05 13:04:23 +0000
committerPascal Rigaux <pixel@mandriva.com>2008-12-05 13:04:23 +0000
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- finish-install
o use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random to generate salt for passwords (since reading on /dev/random can block boot process) (bug found/fixed by blino) (backported from trunk)
Diffstat (limited to 'perl-install')
-rw-r--r--perl-install/NEWS4
-rw-r--r--perl-install/authentication.pm2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS
index 945f853a8..12f764c4f 100644
--- a/perl-install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+- finish-install
+ o use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random to generate salt for passwords
+ (since reading on /dev/random can block boot process)
+
Version 11.71.1 - 5 December 2008
- handle new driver:
diff --git a/perl-install/authentication.pm b/perl-install/authentication.pm
index 716128e49..06b718ea2 100644
--- a/perl-install/authentication.pm
+++ b/perl-install/authentication.pm
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ sub enable_shadow() {
sub salt {
my ($nb) = @_;
require devices;
- open(my $F, devices::make("random")) or die "missing random";
+ open(my $F, devices::make("urandom")) or die "missing urandom";
my $s; read $F, $s, $nb;
$s = pack("b8" x $nb, unpack "b6" x $nb, $s);
$s =~ tr|\0-\x3f|0-9a-zA-Z./|;