[GLLUG] Building SSL and SSH

[Matt Fuerst]

Hi all,

For the first time I built OpenSSH and OpenSSL by hand. it all went real
easily. Too easily I guess.

I've got all my goodness in the /usr/local directory.

I can execute /usr/local/sbin/sshd to start my sshd deamon. I then try to
connect to it from the outside and it refuses to accept my password. I do a
'ps aux' and cannot see the process running, but if I execute
/usr/local/sbin/sshd again it drops a message into /var/log/messages that it
cannot start since the port is in use.

So, there's a couple of weird things goin on there...

Any ideas? If it would accept my password I'd be a happy camper.. but it
just yaks... it says "No soup for Matt Fuerst" (well, not literally...)

I am running Sparc Linux (RedHat 6.2 distro) and..I wonder if it has
something to do with PAM.. I am running shadow passwords... but I am not
sure how to check that. Is it possible that sshd cannot read my shadow
passwords or something?

Thanks for any advice...
Matt