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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon
Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon
An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Daemon
1 Rule
The rngd feeds random data from hardware device to kernel random device.
Enable the Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer Service
Low Severity
The Hardware RNG Entropy Gatherer service should be enabled. The
rngd
service can be enabled with the following command:
$ sudo systemctl enable rngd.service