Package: makepasswd Version: 1.10-2
When I invoke 'makepasswd --chars=12 --randomseed 0', it hangs apparently indefinitely, blocking on /dev/random. The machine I am running this on has no local user, and nothing really installed on it. Banging a few lines of characters on the console keyboard generates enough entropy to complete the command.
This is how the package mantis (and possibly others) generates its database password. Used on a new system, it causes it block reading from /dev/random, never completing the install, unless the user has someone local generate entropy w/ the keyboard.
Pushing traffic thru the nic (e100) does not appear to generate entropy.
A timeout, or notification of what is going on would really help.
# uname -a Linux thisbox 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 24 02:32:52 EST 2005 i686
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