EB_CLIENT_EGD(1)

📦 version 2.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

✨ NAME ✨

eb_client_egd — export entropy data as egd server

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because this one is iconic. this is eb_client_egd, v1.0, and it's (C) 2009-2012 by folkert@vanheusden.com. the whole vibe? it takes entropy data and serves it up like it's running an egd server, no cap. 🌈

so here's the tea: egd-clients can use the /tmp/egd.sock unix domain socket. this should work with at least OpenSSL — fr fr, that's the minimum. to get it going, you start eb_client_egd with one of the following parameters:

-d /var/run/egd-pool

or

-d /dev/egd-pool

or

-d /etc/egd-pool

or

-d /etc/entropy

pick your fighter, literally any one of them. 💅

now, to verify that client_egd functions, run this:

openssl rand -rand /var/run/egd-pool -out /tmp/bla 10

it should return something like 255 semi-random bytes loaded — and here's the important bit, bestie: that 255 should be > 0. like, strictly greater than zero. if it's zero? 😭 that's the vibe check failing. go check if the current user has enough rights to access the /var/run/egd-pool file. permissions said no and now you're sad. fix the rights, not your attitude. 🫶

🎀 the flags, one by one 🎀

  • -i host — the eb-host to connect to. tell it where to go. ✨
  • -d file — the UNIX-domain socket to listen on. this is your main character socket. 💜
  • -l file — log to file file. receipts, but in a file. 🍓
  • -s — log to syslog instead. same receipts, different mailbox. 📬
  • -n — do not fork. it stays right where you left it, no ghosting. 🙈
  • -P file — file to write the PID to. so you can always find it again, iykyk. 👑
  • -X file — file to read the password from. secrets stay in files, periodt. 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie. this lil icon was brought to you by eb_client_egd, dated July 2012, and it lives in the EB_CLIENT_EGD(1) manual, section 1. slay, ate, no crumbs. 💅✨🎀🦋

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