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Re: /dev/urandom: Permission denied
- To: Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd at axonet dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: /dev/urandom: Permission denied
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:37:18 +0200
- CC: "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
- References: <00F8D6E8AB0DD3118F1A006008186C9611F764@server1.axonet.com.au>
- Reply-To: cygdev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Andrew Dalgleish wrote:
>
> I am using NT Workstation 4 sp 5, cygwin 1.1.2 (2000/6/7), ntsec
> enabled.
>
> If I log in as any account which does not have administrator privileges,
> I can't read from /dev/urandom.
> (I first noticed it when sshd failed to start after a clean re-install
> of everything.)
>
> bash-2.04$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=512 count=1
> dd: /dev/urandom: Permission denied
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
Hmm, this shouldn't happen with 1.1.2. I had patched that to
work with the machine keyset which should be provided by the
MS default provider.
If you would be able to track that down I would be glad.
I don't have a chance to check that on my NT4 system because
I'm not at home 'til Tuesday and I have only a Linux and a
W2K box here. I will try that on the W2K box this weekend
as well.
Corinna