Darren Newton's questions -ubuntu

Darren Newton

Asked: 2011-03-13 13:36:11 +0800 CST

Root cannot access /dev/urandom

I am trying to generate a GPG key, and I cannot generate enough entropy. So I installed rng-tools and tried following these instructions: https://serverfault.com/questions/214605/gpg-not-enough-entropy

When I am logged in as root, and try to run rngd -r /dev/urandom I get the following error: can't open /dev/random: Permission denied

I find this disturbing as I am root.

This is Ubuntu on a virtual server (via Parallels I believe.)

Darren Newton

Asked: 2010-10-25 19:06:58 +0800 CST

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