On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:07:21PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
| On August 15, 2014 2:04:56 PM CEST, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>
wrote:
| >> Is it safe to generate some randomness in /tftpboot/etc/random.seed
| >for
| >> clients that PXE boot?
| >
| >I do not even know if that file will be read... is it?
|
| IIRC, it is tried but deemed unsafe (0555) and therefore isn't used, but
causes a warning. Maybe it had changed since.
What do you mean? You don't get permissions with a TFTP transfer. If
the tftpd can read the file, it'll send it to you. If it can't, it
won't (surprise, surprise ;).
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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