- (dtucker) [INSTALL] Update the systems that have PAM as standard. Link

[openssh.git] / INSTALL

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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL.
 
-Zlib 1.1.4 or greater:
+Zlib 1.1.4 or 1.2.1.2 or greater (ealier 1.2.x versions have problems):
 http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
 
 OpenSSL 0.9.6 or greater:
@@ -12,18 +12,23 @@ 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, Solaris and
-HP-UX 11.
+The remaining items are optional.
+
+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.
 
@@ -50,19 +55,36 @@ lacks /dev/random and don't want to use OpenSSH's internal entropy collection.
 http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
 
 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/
 
 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:
+sftp 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/
 
-If you wish to use --with-skey then you will need the above library
-installed.  No other current S/Key library is currently known to be
-supported.
+Autoconf:
+
+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.
+
+http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
+
+Basic Security Module (BSM):
+
+Native BSM support is know to exist in Solaris from at least 2.5.1,
+FreeBSD 6.1 and OS X.  Alternatively, you may use the OpenBSM
+implementation (http://www.openbsm.org).
+
 
 2. Building / Installation
 --------------------------
@@ -91,6 +113,10 @@ make install
 This will install the binaries in /opt/{bin,lib,sbin}, but will place the
 configuration files in /etc/ssh.
 
+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).  Note that the service name used to start PAM is __progname,
@@ -109,6 +135,10 @@ name).
 
 There are a few other options to the configure script:
 
+--with-audit=[module] enable additional auditing via the specified module.
+Currently, drivers for "debug" (additional info via syslog) and "bsm"
+(Sun's Basic Security Module) are supported.
+
 --with-pam enables PAM support. If PAM support is compiled in, it must
 also be enabled in sshd_config (refer to the UsePAM directive).
 
@@ -161,6 +191,8 @@ created.
 --with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your OpenSSL libraries
 are installed.
 
+--with-ssl-engine enables OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support
+
 --with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to
 real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux.
 
@@ -200,7 +232,21 @@ running and has collected some Entropy.
 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 of the file "survey" to ensure there's no information
+that you consider sensitive]
+$ 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.