PRNG for 11.0? To fix broken ssh

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I realize that hp-ux 11.0 is no longer supported, but is it possible to find PRNG for it?

I am trying to fix broken ssh, which won't start because there is no PRNG as far as I uderstand. The exact error message is:

ssh
PRNG is not seeded

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Any ideas?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Bad news.

I got this message when a NIC was failing.

Beyond that the Strong Random Number Generator fixed this for me on 11.11

HP doesn't offer this add in product on 11.00.

Sorry. Check the NIC card it may be ready to go. Think about clearing the .ssh direcotry and generating new public keys.

SEP

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The machine got rebooted when a Fibre card got installed. After that, all this "PRNG is not seeded" stuff started, on command line and /etc/rc.log.

Now, how can a NIC card possibly be a cause of this? I fail to see the correlation.

What are my options at this point?
Can this be patched?

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P.S.

I cleared the .ssh directory and tried to runs ssh-keygen and got the same error:

PRNG is not seeded.

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Also I tried to compile PRNG (for 11.11) and of course it did not work:


#/usr/local/bin/prngd-0.9.29#:make install
cc -O -I/usr/local/include -D_HPUX_SOURCE -DHPUX11 -I. -c prngd.c
(Bundled) cc: warning 480: The -O option is available only with the C/ANSI C product; ignored.
(Bundled) cc: "prngd.h", line 52: warning 5: "const" will become a keyword.
(Bundled) cc: "prngd.h", line 52: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "char".
(Bundled) cc: "prngd.h", line 52: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "*".
(Bundled) cc: error 2017: Cannot recover from earlier errors, terminating.
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.
#/usr/local/bin/prngd-0.9.29#:which cc
/usr/bin/cc

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FWIW, I fixed it by downgrading to a lower version of OpenSSH, 3.1.