openssh 3.5p1 with openssl-0.9.7a - long

[Jason McCormick]

> > scp: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.6:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

With RedHat systems, you have to be careful because many things are 
dependent (via RPM) on the base version of OpenSSL that came with the 
original setup of the system.  If you look at the RedHat updates, 
there's usually several co-existant versions of OpenSSL to be 
installed.  The "normal" one and ones that provides dependencies for 
binaries that are linked to older versions.  For example in the current 
rawhide tree there's:

openssl-0.9.7a-1.i386.rpm (current)
openssl096b-0.9.6b-3.i386.rpm (depend provider)
openssl096-0.9.6-15.i386.rpm (depend provider)

You can install all of these together (they don't conflict) then you 
have the latest and greatest OpenSSL.  Now, of course you're in the 
middle of RedHat's move to glibc 2.3 so rawhide may or may not work for 
you depending on where your system is, but you can always build from 
the SRPMS which works equally well. The update tree follows roughly the 
same setup and their 0.9.6b is patched up to the latest verion of 
OpenSSL even though it's called 'b' still.

Anyway, this long-winded diatribe is how I've gotten around my SSL 
problems in my vast array of RH 7.0 through 8.0 servers.

-- 
Jason McCormick
jason at devrandom.org