X-Git-Url: http://andersk.mit.edu/gitweb/gssapi-openssh.git/blobdiff_plain/41b2f31402be54e00944779e69cf43bc23fa413a..c7931c9aedd8e12fdd0df715dcefce0e0c95be6a:/openssh/INSTALL diff --git a/openssh/INSTALL b/openssh/INSTALL index 64fa7e9..777bdfe 100644 --- a/openssh/INSTALL +++ b/openssh/INSTALL @@ -6,21 +6,17 @@ You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL. Zlib: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ -OpenSSL 0.9.6 or greater: +OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater: http://www.openssl.org/ -(OpenSSL 0.9.5a is partially supported, but some ciphers (SSH protocol 1 -Blowfish) do not work correctly.) +RPMs of OpenSSL are available at http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/support. +For Red Hat Linux 6.2, they have been released as errata. RHL7 includes +these. OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your system supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and HP-UX 11. -NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure -OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of -/dev/random. If you don't you will have to rely on ssh-rand-helper, which -is inferior to a good kernel-based solution. - PAM: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ @@ -49,6 +45,18 @@ lacks /dev/random and don't want to use OpenSSH's internal entropy collection. http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ +GNU Make: +ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ + +OpenSSH has only been tested with GNU make. It may work with other +'make' programs, but you are on your own. + +PCRE (PERL-compatible Regular Expression library): +ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programing/pcre/ + +Most platforms do not require this. However older Unices may not have a +posix regex library. PCRE provides a POSIX interface. + S/Key Libraries: http://www.sparc.spb.su/solaris/skey/ @@ -101,12 +109,21 @@ name). There are a few other options to the configure script: +--with-rsh=PATH allows you to specify the path to your rsh program. +Normally ./configure will search the current $PATH for 'rsh'. You +may need to specify this option if rsh is not in your path or has a +different name. + --with-pam enables PAM support. --enable-gnome-askpass will build the GNOME passphrase dialog. You need a working installation of GNOME, including the development headers, for this to work. +--with-random=/some/file allows you to specify an alternate source of +random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutely +sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone. + --with-prngd-socket=/some/file allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support and to specify a PRNGd socket. Use this if your Unix lacks /dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy @@ -173,10 +190,6 @@ are installed. --with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux. ---with-opensc=DIR ---with-sectok=DIR allows for OpenSC or sectok smartcard libraries to -be used with OpenSSH. See 'README.smartcard' for more details. - If you need to pass special options to the compiler or linker, you can specify these as environment variables before running ./configure. For example: