Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:34:05 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] add helper for highmem checks |
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:44:12AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Oh, craptastic. X used to hash /dev/mem to get a random seed. It > should have stopped that long ago, and used /dev/[u]random.
That's because debian still has this WINGs window manager which hasn't seen any new releases since 2005: http://voins.program.ru/wdm/ and I'm using it because I don't want the pompous crap of the other display managers.
But this one uses /dev/mem as a randomFile only by default - there's a configuration variable DisplayManager.randomFile which can be pointed away from /dev/mem so that's easily fixable.
Mind you, I wouldnt've caught the issue if I wasn't using this ancient thing in its default settings :o).
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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