sshd does not start

[Haferman, Joyce E,,PERSEREC]

I hope I'm sending this to the correct group for resolution, if not please
direct to the appropriate place for openssh problems.

I complied openssh-3.5pl.tar  on Solaris 8 OS system using gnu.
I installed the lastest version of openssl.
I did not install /www/gzip.org/zlib because I assumed that I probably have
that, since I have gunzip....

Openssh compiled but I kept receiving warnings that I do not have a random
generator.

After the make install,  I did a ps -ef|grep sshd, but sshd was not running.

I typed ssh hostname
and I received the error:
ssh: connect to host...port 22: connection refused

I tried to start sshd daemon manually:
/usr/local/sbin/sshd
I received the error:
Privilege separtaion user sshd does not exist.

The following is the tail output from the make install command:
mkdir /usr/local/etc
Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
c0:4a:f8:f4:a5:5f:3c:6f:a7:e7:57:e0:bf:3a:c1:76 root at cupid
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
9d:62:44:1b:25:40:cd:09:95:8b:fa:24:8f:68:31:10 root at cupid
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Your identification has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.
Your public key has been saved in /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
23:c8:01:4a:5a:de:f6:eb:79:2d:5f:32:6d:f4:7c:27 root at cupid
/usr/local/sbin/sshd -t -f /usr/local/etc/sshd_config
Privilege separation user sshd does not exist
make: [check-config] Error 255 (ignored)
# ps -ef|grep ssh
    root 12182  4951  0 10:50:36 pts/1    0:00 grep ssh  


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Is the problem that I do not have zlib installed?

Joyce Haferman
Computer Systems Analyst
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