From 74d65415dca9721fe3be0c3d5b070bf9b7fcc4fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Rigaux Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:03:30 +0000 Subject: - 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) --- perl-install/authentication.pm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'perl-install/authentication.pm') 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./|; -- cgit v1.2.1