I have been scratching my head for a while now and cannot find a way to make it work...
I want to run some cgi scripts (written in Python) on my OpenBSD server. Since the web-server on OpenBSD runs in a jail I recreated the whole folder structure (/bin /dev /usr /usr/local/lib etc. etc.) but I'm still getting '500 Server Internal Error' when I'm trying to import some Python modules that require access to /dev/urandom device.
I have created the device special files using mknod.
ls -la /dev/*random
ls -la /dev/{null,zero}
I got the following output
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 3 Sep 13 11:09 /dev/arandom
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 0 Jul 15 19:02 /dev/random
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 1 Jul 15 19:02 /dev/srandom
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 2 Jul 15 19:02 /dev/urandom
and
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 16 01:30 /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 12 Jul 15 19:02 /dev/zero
So I executed the following commands in the /var/www/dev folder (OpenBSD web-server runs in chroot -u www /var/www)
mknod -m 666 null c 2 2
mknod -m 666 zero c 2 12
mknod -m 644 random 45 0
mknod -m 644 srandom 45 1
mknod -m 644 urandom 45 2
mknod -m 644 arandom 45 3
However, Python still reports that the
OSError: [Errno 6] Device not configured '/dev/urandom'
The same code works fine in a non-chroot-ed environment.
import os
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
Any help would be truly appreciated!
On OpenBSD non-root (/) partitions are mounted with nodev option. Look at your /etc/fstab. For example:
$ mount | grep -F /var
/dev/wd0g on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)