X-Git-Url: http://andersk.mit.edu/gitweb/openssh.git/blobdiff_plain/7af3215a43dfd95c0302614f8473ea74cd6e81c6..9300be60be71b56cfa3ee5bf6bb2e9239abb1ae2:/INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 777bdfe3..64fa7e91 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -6,17 +6,21 @@ You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL. Zlib: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ -OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater: +OpenSSL 0.9.6 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. +(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. +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: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ @@ -45,18 +49,6 @@ lacks /dev/random and don't want to use OpenSSH's internal entropy collection. http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ -GNU Make: -ftp://ftp.gnu.org/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/ @@ -109,21 +101,12 @@ name). There are a few other options to the configure script: ---with-rsh=PATH allows you to specify the path to your rsh program. -Normally ./configure will search the current $PATH for 'rsh'. You -may need to specify this option if rsh is not in your path or has a -different name. - --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 absolutely -sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone. - --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 @@ -190,6 +173,10 @@ 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. +--with-opensc=DIR +--with-sectok=DIR allows for OpenSC or sectok smartcard libraries to +be used with OpenSSH. See 'README.smartcard' for more details. + If you need to pass special options to the compiler or linker, you can specify these as environment variables before running ./configure. For example: