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		pvdebbe on Sept 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Myths about /dev/urandom But couldn't you put that in /etc/fstab?

robmccoll on Sept 1, 2015 | [–]

You could. I also find myself binding /dev/urandom into /dev/random in a container FWIW.

DiabloD3 on Sept 1, 2015 | [–]

I could do a udev rule to just mknod random with the urandom device instead.

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