gpg: fatal: can't open /dev/urandom on AIX 5.2

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Oct 26 11:23:14 CEST 2004


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:59:28 -0500, Mamta Mehra said:

> PGP keys, we are getting following error:
> gpg: fatal: can't open /dev/urandom:

Are you sure that you did not miss the end of the line?  It should
show the actual error message.

You should also update to the latest gpg version which is 1.2.6; there
are some fixes for AIX in it.

> Our Unix team have verified the access to /dev/urandom device from
> user.

Are the permissions of /dev/urandom correct?


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner




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