- jmc@cvs.openbsd.org 2010/01/13 12:48:34

[openssh.git] / README.platform

diff --git a/README.platform b/README.platform
index ed62527579b9da8007ce5804ac92176ca1aa0e69..b2cfa7c4d4925ab18f7aedc140c154b29a1eb2e0 100644 (file)
--- a/README.platform
+++ b/README.platform
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ define the environment variable blibpath before running configure, eg
 blibpath=/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/freeware/lib ./configure \
   --with-ssl-dir=/opt/freeware --with-zlib=/opt/freeware
 
+If sshd is built with the WITH_AIXAUTHENTICATE option (which is enabled
+by default) then sshd checks that users are permitted via the
+loginrestrictions() function, in particular that the user has the
+"rlogin" attribute set.  This check is not done for the root account,
+instead the PermitRootLogin setting in sshd_config is used.
+
 
 Cygwin
 ------
@@ -50,6 +56,18 @@ using a third party driver. More information is available at:
        http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/
 
 
+Linux
+-----
+
+Some Linux distributions (including Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS) include
+headers and library links in the -devel RPMs rather than the main
+binary RPMs. If you get an error about headers, or complaining about a
+missing prerequisite then you may need to install the equivalent
+development packages.  On Redhat based distros these may be openssl-devel,
+zlib-devel and pam-devel, on Debian based distros these may be
+libssl-dev, libz-dev and libpam-dev.
+
+
 Solaris
 -------
 If you enable BSM auditing on Solaris, you need to update audit_event(4)