436270 – openrc-0.9.8.4: urandom irrelevant in LXC container

Bug 436270 - openrc-0.9.8.4: urandom irrelevant in LXC container

Summary: openrc-0.9.8.4: urandom irrelevant in LXC container

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	OpenRC (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	OpenRC Team

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Blocks:	417391
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Reported:	2012-09-26 01:29 UTC by Walter
Modified:	2012-09-26 17:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Walter 2012-09-26 01:29:32 UTC

AFAIK urandom is provided by the host kernel to all guests and does not need to be initialized/have seed state stored by a given guest.  Therefore it makes sense to remove urandom from the 'boot' runlevel when running in LXC.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start in an LXC container
Actual Results:  
urandom seed stuff happens

Expected Results:  
urandom is skipped

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2012-09-26 17:03:20 UTC

We don't actually remove it from the boot runlevel, but we add a keyword
to the script so it will not run in an lxc environment.

This has been done in commit 7d8dca7 and will be released with
OpenRC-0.11.