openssh-2.1.1p1 on Debian slink and potato

[Pekka Savola]

> Just today I compilied openssh-2.1.1p1 on Debian Slink and Potato both to come out with the same problem.
> 
> I  am compiling them with openssl-0.9.5a.. The configure line I use for openssh is below:
> ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --prefix=/usr  --with-ssl-dir=../openssl-0.9.5a
> 
> Then when I do a w at the prompt look what I get:
> a# w
>  12:41pm  up 13:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.06
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
> root     pts/0    -                31Dec69  0.00s  0.13s  0.05s  w 
> #

This is a known issue -- bash2 doesn't like how utmp/utmpx stuff was done
in 'configure' in 2.x.x, and required UTMP/UTMPX #define's were left out
of config.h.  

You could try the latest snapshot,
http://www.mindrot.org/misc/junk/openssh-SNAP-20000628.tar.gz
to try to get around the issue.


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