- (tim) [configure.ac] Add AC_REVISION. Add sys/time.h to lastlog.h test

[openssh.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eecc3863e9614fe78a96d602cc9ccd0ddda77d6a..9def158d2ca4f224f5f07a642b6f501179276e8c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ 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:
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ libraries and headers.
 GNOME:
 http://www.gnome.org/
 
-Alternatively, Jim Knoble <jmknoble@jmknoble.cx> has written an excellent X11
+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/
@@ -50,11 +50,19 @@ 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/
 
-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.
+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
 --------------------------
@@ -83,6 +91,10 @@ 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,
@@ -192,7 +204,20 @@ 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 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.