[lug] Weird su/sudo/login/ssh/mail problem

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2002-04-05 17:02 Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
> 
> The problem:  shortly after rebooting (typically around 5 minutes)
> any call to su, sudo, login, or ssh "fails."  I use quotes because
> most of the programs will eventually succeed after a delay of several
> hours.  The same thing happens with outbound mail - it will sit in
> the mail queue for hours or longer.  Yet XDM lets me log in.

The random seed may not be random enough after a reboot.

Take a look at:
  http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/openssh.txt

Search for 'seed'

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