The remaining items are optional.
-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.
+OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your
+system supports it. PAM is standard most Linux distributions, Solaris,
+HP-UX 11 and AIX >= 5.2.
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:
+Linux PAM:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
+OpenPAM:
+http://www.openpam.org/
+
If you wish to build the GNOME passphrase requester, you will need the GNOME
libraries and headers.
PRNGD:
-If your system lacks Kernel based random collection, the use of Lutz
+If your system lacks kernel-based random collection, the use of Lutz
Jaenicke's PRNGd is recommended.
-http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
+http://prngd.sourceforge.net/
EGD:
If you modify configure.ac or configure doesn't exist (eg if you checked
the code out of CVS yourself) then you will need autoconf-2.61 to rebuild
the automatically generated files by running "autoreconf". Earlier
-version may also work but this is not guaranteed.
+versions may also work but this is not guaranteed.
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/