You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL.
Zlib:
-http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
+http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
-OpenSSL:
+OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater:
http://www.openssl.org/
+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 and on Solaris.
+supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and
+HP-UX 11.
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/
-Alternatively, Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> has written an excellent X11
+Alternatively, Jim Knoble <jmknoble@jmknoble.cx> has written an excellent X11
passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at:
http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/software/x11-ssh-askpass/index.html
-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.
+PRNGD:
+
+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
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:
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/
+
+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.
+
2. Building / Installation
--------------------------
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 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. If you are
-using a recent version of Redhat Linux, the config file in
-packages/redhat/sshd.pam should be more useful.
+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:
may need to specify this option if rsh is not in your path or has a
different name.
---without-pam will disable PAM support. PAM is automatically detected
-and switched on if found.
+--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 absolutly
+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-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-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.
+
+--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-lastlog=FILE will specify the location of the lastlog file.
./configure searches a few locations for lastlog, but may not find
--without-lastlog will disable lastlog support entirely.
+--with-sia, --without-sia will enable or disable OSF1's Security
+Integration Architecture. The default for OSF1 machines is enable.
+
--with-kerberos4=PATH will enable Kerberos IV support. You will need
to have the Kerberos libraries and header files installed for this
to work. Use the optional PATH argument to specify the root of your
to work. Use the optional PATH argument to specify the root of your
AFS installation. AFS requires Kerberos support to be enabled.
---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.
$DISPLAY environment variable. Some broken systems need this.
--with-default-path=PATH allows you to specify a default $PATH for sessions
-started by sshd.
+started by sshd. This replaces the standard path entirely.
--with-pid-dir=PATH specifies the directory in which the ssh.pid file is
created.
--with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary
---with-dante[=DIR] will enable Dante SOCKS library support. If the Dante
-libsocks library isn't installed in a library searched by the compiler,
-add the directory name as the option.
-
--with-ipv4-default instructs OpenSSH to use IPv4 by default for new
connections. Normally OpenSSH will try attempt to lookup both IPv6 and
IPv4 addresses. On Linux/glibc-2.1.2 this causes long delays in name
--with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your OpenSSL libraries
are installed.
+--with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to
+real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux.
+
If you need to pass special options to the compiler or linker, you
-can specify these as enviornment variables before running ./configure.
+can specify these as environment variables before running ./configure.
For example:
-CFLAGS="-O -m486" LFLAGS="-s" ./configure
+CFLAGS="-O -m486" LDFLAGS="-s" LIBS="-lrubbish" LD="/usr/foo/ld" ./configure
3. Configuration
----------------
review it to ensure that it matches your security requirements.
To generate a host key, run "make host-key". Alternately you can do so
-manually using the following command:
+manually using the following commands:
-/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ''
+ ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ""
+ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ""
+ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
Replacing /etc/ssh with the correct path to the configuration directory.
(${prefix}/etc or whatever you specified with --sysconfdir during
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/
+
+$Id$