openssh-2.1.1p1 on Debian slink and potato

[Rip Loomis]

Nikhil--
(If you used to volunteer for ml.org, hello again,
otherwise hello...)

This is a known issue with the released 2.1.1p1
on Linux derivatives; Damien already has included
the patch in his tree.  I would recommend getting
the latest "snapshot" tarball from

  http://www.mindrot.org/misc/junk/openssh-SNAP-20000628.tar.gz

and using that.  (The issue is the way that the
configure script decides what utmp/utmpx/wtmp/wtmpx
format to use).

Hey Damien--would it be reasonable to release a
2.1.1p2 sometime soon to stop this FAQ?  I have
functional-but-ugly scripts to build a Solaris
installable package that I wasn't rushing
to clean up (since I thought another release
would be out soon), but is there a plan for the
next release?  If it's going to be another two
weeks then maybe I can get them cleaned up enough
to go into contrib/ ....

	--Rip



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
[mailto:owner-openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org]On Behalf Of
nikhil at mailsafe.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:43 AM
To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
Subject: openssh-2.1.1p1 on Debian slink and potato




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

So I compile, do a make install restart the sshd daemon and everything seems
fine.

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
#
So i'm a bit puzzled I'm not logging in from console, I'm sshing from a
remote host, I wonder how come the remote host is not being displaed under
FROM.

Same thing happens under who:
# who
root     pts/0    Dec 31 19:00
#


Is there something that I did wrong that I'm over looking? Not only is the
FROM missing but the date is also missing.


This was an upgrade from a old version of openssh and that version worked
fine.


Can someone please shed some light on what I might've done wrong and how to
fix this problem.


Please let me know and thanks again