[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: Bug#587665: wrong PATH in urandom, find is in /usr/bin

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Looking at the changelog, it was introduced in 2005 to fix #267935. If
> it is not needed any more, lets drop it.  I very much welcome help
> with writing a patch for this to get init.d/urandom moved earlier in
> the boot.  Can you write a patch based on your insight with random.c?

Well, it all depends on we moving the seed outside of /var and into /.

> Will it affect kFreeBSD and Hurd?

Yes, if they use the same initscript.  Their random generators might be
very different from the one in Linux, so any security considerations
based on Linux random.c might not apply to the Hurd or to FreeBSD...

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  Henrique Holschuh