From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 04:13:05 +0000 (-0400) Subject: added suggestion for speeding up key generation on remote systems. X-Git-Tag: monkeysphere_0.8-1~52 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a38730c4bc95c7e9152ffd22459e9acc2bd0f45;p=monkeysphere.git added suggestion for speeding up key generation on remote systems. --- diff --git a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn index 0109b42..8f1da5a 100644 --- a/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/headless-servers-take-too-long-to-generate-host-key.mdwn @@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and "massaging" it. This won't work for a machine that's out of physical range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway. + +One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator +install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a +non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count +somewhat.