OpenSSH and Solaris with 0.9.6x openssl

[Jim Mintha]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Scott Burch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

Not sure if it is helpful but it worked for me.  Here are the
tools/libraries that I used

openssl 0.9.6
openssh 2.9p2 (configure --with-tcp-wrapper --without-pam)
gcc 2.95.3
zlib 1.1.3


ANDIrand package from http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi/ which provides
/dev/random for solaris.

The only difference is the 0.9.6 instead of 0.9.6a/b.  I just did a
quick build of 0.9.6b and ssh and it seems to work fine, but I didn't
test it too much.

Jim

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