You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL.
-Zlib:
-http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
+Zlib 1.1.4 or 1.2.1.2 or greater (ealier 1.2.x versions have problems):
+http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
-OpenSSL:
+OpenSSL 0.9.6 or greater:
http://www.openssl.org/
+(OpenSSL 0.9.5a is partially supported, but some ciphers (SSH protocol 1
+Blowfish) do not work correctly.)
+
OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your system
-supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux and on Solaris.
+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/
-Dante:
-http://www.inet.no/dante
-
-OpenSSH can also use the Dante SOCKS libraries, version 1.1.1pre1 or higher,
-if you have them installed on your system.
-
If you wish to build the GNOME passphrase requester, you will need the GNOME
libraries and headers.
GNOME:
http://www.gnome.org/
-Alternatly Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> has written an excellent X11
-passphrase requester. This is maintained seperatly at:
+Alternatively, Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> has written an excellent X11
+passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at:
+
+http://www.jmknoble.net/software/x11-ssh-askpass/
-http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/jmk/
+PRNGD:
+If your system lacks Kernel based random collection, the use of Lutz
+Jaenicke's PRNGd is recommended.
-If you are planning to use OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a Kernel random
-number generator (/dev/urandom), you will need to install the Entropy
-Gathering Daemon (or similar). You will also need to specify the
---with-egd-pool option to ./configure.
+http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
EGD:
+
+The Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is supported if you have a system which
+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/
+S/Key Libraries:
+
+If you wish to use --with-skey then you will need the library below
+installed. No other S/Key library is currently known to be supported.
+
+http://www.sparc.spb.su/solaris/skey/
-OpenSSH has only been tested with GNU make. It may work with other
-'make' programs, but you are on your own.
+LibEdit:
+sftp now supports command-line editing via NetBSD's libedit. If your
+platform has it available natively you can use that, alternatively
+you might try these multi-platform ports:
+
+http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/
2. Building / Installation
--------------------------
make
make install
-Will install OpenSSH in /opt/{bin,etc,lib,sbin}. You can also override
+Will install OpenSSH in /opt/{bin,etc,lib,sbin}. You can also override
specific paths, for example:
./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh
This will install the binaries in /opt/{bin,lib,sbin}, but will place the
configuration files in /etc/ssh.
-If you are using PAM, you will need to manually install a PAM control
+If you are using Privilege Separation (which is enabled by default)
+then you will also need to create the user, group and directory used by
+sshd for privilege separation. See README.privsep for details.
+
+If you are using PAM, you may need to manually install a PAM control
file as "/etc/pam.d/sshd" (or wherever your system prefers to keep
-them). A generic PAM configuration is included as "sshd.pam.generic",
-you may need to edit it before using it on your system.
+them). Note that the service name used to start PAM is __progname,
+which is the basename of the path of your sshd (e.g., the service name
+for /usr/sbin/osshd will be osshd). If you have renamed your sshd
+executable, your PAM configuration may need to be modified.
+
+A generic PAM configuration is included as "contrib/sshd.pam.generic",
+you may need to edit it before using it on your system. If you are
+using a recent version of Red Hat Linux, the config file in
+contrib/redhat/sshd.pam should be more useful. Failure to install a
+valid PAM file may result in an inability to use password
+authentication. On HP-UX 11 and Solaris, the standard /etc/pam.conf
+configuration will work with sshd (sshd will match the other service
+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. If PAM support is compiled in, it must
+also be enabled in sshd_config (refer to the UsePAM directive).
---without-pam will disable PAM support. PAM is automatically detected
-and switched on if found.
+--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
+collection 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-prngd-port=portnum allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support
+and to specify a EGD localhost TCP port. Use this if your Unix lacks
+/dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy
+collection support.
---with-random=/some/file allows you to specify an alternate source of
-random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutly
-sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone.
-
---with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable Entropy Gathering
-Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You will need to
-use this if your Unix does not support the /dev/urandom device (or
-similar). The file argument refers to the EGD pool file, not the
-EGD program itself. Please refer to the EGD documentation.
-
---with-lastlog=FILE will specify the location of the lastlog file.
+--with-lastlog=FILE will specify the location of the lastlog file.
./configure searches a few locations for lastlog, but may not find
it if lastlog is installed in a different place.
--without-lastlog will disable lastlog support entirely.
---with-kerberos4 will enable Kerberos IV support. You will need to
-have the Kerberos libraries and header files installed for this to
-work.
-
---with-afs will enable AFS support. You will need to have the Kerberos
-IV and the AFS libraries and header files installed for this to work.
+--with-osfsia, --without-osfsia will enable or disable OSF1's Security
+Integration Architecture. The default for OSF1 machines is enable.
---with-skey will enable S/Key one time password support. You will need
-the S/Key libraries and header files installed for this to work.
+--with-skey=PATH will enable S/Key one time password support. You will
+need the S/Key libraries and header files installed for this to work.
--with-tcp-wrappers will enable TCP Wrappers (/etc/hosts.allow|deny)
support. You will need libwrap.a and tcpd.h installed.
--with-md5-passwords will enable the use of MD5 passwords. Enable this
-if your operating system uses MD5 passwords without using PAM.
+if your operating system uses MD5 passwords and the system crypt() does
+not support them directly (see the crypt(3/3c) man page). If enabled, the
+resulting binary will support both MD5 and traditional crypt passwords.
---with-utmpx enables utmpx support. utmpx support is automatic for
+--with-utmpx enables utmpx support. utmpx support is automatic for
some platforms.
--without-shadow disables shadow password support.
---with-ipaddr-display forces the use of a numeric IP address in the
+--with-ipaddr-display forces the use of a numeric IP address in the
$DISPLAY environment variable. Some broken systems need this.
--with-default-path=PATH allows you to specify a default $PATH for sessions
-started by sshd.
+started by sshd. This replaces the standard path entirely.
+
+--with-pid-dir=PATH specifies the directory in which the ssh.pid file is
+created.
+
+--with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary
+
+--with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your OpenSSL libraries
+are installed.
---with-dante[=DIR] will enable Dante SOCKS library support. If the Dante
-libsocks library isn't installed in a library searched by the compiler,
-add the directory name as the option.
+--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 enviornment variables before running ./configure.
+can specify these as environment variables before running ./configure.
For example:
-CFLAGS="-O -m486" LFLAGS="-s" ./configure
+CFLAGS="-O -m486" LDFLAGS="-s" LIBS="-lrubbish" LD="/usr/foo/ld" ./configure
3. Configuration
----------------
-The runtime configuration files are installed by in ${prefix}/etc or
+The runtime configuration files are installed by in ${prefix}/etc or
whatever you specified as your --sysconfdir (/usr/local/etc by default).
-The default configuration should be instantly usable, though you should
+The default configuration should be instantly usable, though you should
review it to ensure that it matches your security requirements.
-To generate a host key, issue the following command: (replacing
-/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key with an appropriate path)
+To generate a host key, run "make host-key". Alternately you can do so
+manually using the following commands:
-/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ''
+ ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ""
+ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ""
+ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
Replacing /etc/ssh with the correct path to the configuration directory.
-(${prefix}/etc or whatever you specified with --sysconfdir during
+(${prefix}/etc or whatever you specified with --sysconfdir during
configuration)
If you have configured OpenSSH with EGD support, ensure that EGD is
running and has collected some Entropy.
-For more information on configuration, please refer to the manual pages
+For more information on configuration, please refer to the manual pages
for sshd, ssh and ssh-agent.
-4. Problems?
+4. (Optional) Send survey
+-------------------------
+
+$ make survey
+[check the contents and make sure there's no sensitive information]
+$ make send-survey
+
+This will send configuration information for the currently configured
+host to a survey address. This will help determine which configurations
+are actually in use, and what valid combinations of configure options
+exist. The raw data is available only to the OpenSSH developers, however
+summary data may be published.
+
+5. Problems?
------------
-If you experience problems compiling, installing or running OpenSSH.
+If you experience problems compiling, installing or running OpenSSH.
Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
-http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/
+http://www.openssh.com/
+
+$Id$