OpenSSH and Solaris with 0.9.6x openssl

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Scott Burch wrote:
> I have tried to install openssh 2.9p2 on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 2.8
> after compiling the openssl (both 0.9.6a and 0.9.6b) and openssh
> software with both gcc 2.95.3, Sun's Forte compiler, Sun's linker, etc.
> I have tried the zlib from Sun freeware and version 11.8.0
> REV=2000.01.08.18.12 contained in the SUNWzlib package. Both openssh and
> openssl appear to make properly and all the tests for openssl pass. When
> I do a make install for openssh it fails to generate public/private dsa
> keys..in fact ssh_keygen has a bus error when trying to do DSA
> operations. I know other people have had this problem, because I've seen
> similar messages in the mailing list. Unfortunately it appears that
> noone has a solution...at least I can't find an answer. What I am
> wondering is if anyone can get openssh to work on Solaris with the
> 0.9.6x openssl libraries. Maybe I'm missing someone, but everything
> seems to work fine with the 0.9.5x openssl libraries. It appears to me
> that something broke after the 0.9.5x libraries. I'm not sure if openssl
> is the problem. If this problem has been resolved then please enlighten
> me, otherwise I can provide more details to help resolve this issue.

There is a more or less simple answer to this problem.
Somebody who can reproduce this problem must recompile OpenSSH and OpenSSL
with debugger support and analyze the core dump, to see where the
problem is coming from. Of course I assume, that the header files used
for the compilation matches the library versions of the openssl libraries
actually linked in.

Best regards,
	Lutz
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