From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 02:32:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: replacing head -c with dd (for portability reasons, see #673)
X-Git-Tag: monkeysphere_0.25~31^2~12
X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8719b2f757364178ecbe621b027765c8ce58ef4;p=monkeysphere.git

replacing head -c with dd (for portability reasons, see #673)
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diff --git a/src/share/ma/setup b/src/share/ma/setup
index b453f3c..4c87009 100644
--- a/src/share/ma/setup
+++ b/src/share/ma/setup
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ EOF
     if [ -z "$CORE_FPR" ] ; then
 	log info "setting up Monkeysphere authentication trust core..."
 
-	local CORE_UID=$(printf "Monkeysphere authentication trust core UID (random string: %s)" $(head -c21 </dev/urandom | perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print encode_base64($_)'))
+	local CORE_UID=$(printf "Monkeysphere authentication trust core UID (random string: %s)" $(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=21 count=1 | perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print encode_base64($_)'))
     
-	log debug "generating monkeysphere authentication trust core key ($CORE_KEYLENGTH bits)..."
+	printf "generating monkeysphere authentication trust core key:\nsize: %d bits\nuid: '%s'\n" "$CORE_KEYLENGTH" "$CORE_UID" | log debug
 	PEM2OPENPGP_USAGE_FLAGS=certify \
 	    PEM2OPENPGP_NEWKEY=$CORE_KEYLENGTH pem2openpgp "$CORE_UID" \
 	    | gpg_core --import \