SSH Doesn't Start on Ubuntu error: <tt>PRNG is not seeded</tt>

Posted by Tres Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:45:00 GMT

If you’re trying to start up an Ubuntu environment and seeing

 * Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server sshd   PRNG is not seeded

when Ubuntu tries starting OpenSSH, make sure that the /dev/random and /dev/urandom entries have read+write permissions for user,group and other.

chmod 666 /dev/urandom /dev/random

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