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Diffstat (limited to 'perl-install')
| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/authentication.pm | 2 |
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./|; |