OpenSSH 3.3, OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenBSD 2.7

[Joel Sing]

Hi All,

Just spent a number of hours fighting with the above combination of 
operating system, crypto library and OpenSSH. Password authentication kept 
failing and it took a number of hours to nut out the problem. It turns out 
that the OpenBSD/libc version of crypt (which supports Blowfish, MD5 and 
DES) wasn't being used, instead the version found in libcryto was being 
utilised.

The follow change soon corrected the problem:

ssh/sshd/Makefile
+LDFLAGS+=-lc

Hope this will save someone else the time and effort in debugging the 
problem :)

Cheers,

Joel

PS. Many thanks to the OpenSSH team for providing such a brilliant suite of 
software! OpenSSH rocks!!!


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