- djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2010/01/30 02:54:53

[openssh.git] / README.platform

diff --git a/README.platform b/README.platform
index 5724b688f965df7e70bf8b30ba4af36fb24e253f..b2cfa7c4d4925ab18f7aedc140c154b29a1eb2e0 100644 (file)
--- a/README.platform
+++ b/README.platform
@@ -23,6 +23,20 @@ to force the previous IPv4-only behaviour.
 IPv6 known to work: 5.1ML7 5.2ML2 5.2ML5
 IPv6 known broken: 4.3.3ML11 5.1ML4
 
+If you wish to use dynamic libraries that aren't in the normal system
+locations (eg IBM's OpenSSL and zlib packages) then you will need to
+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
 ------
 To build on Cygwin, OpenSSH requires the following packages:
@@ -42,6 +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)