[GLLUG] Building SSL and SSH

[basher584]

I believe you will need --with-pam on the ./configure

there are pam files  and a spec in <openssh-source>/contrib/redhat that may be helpful.

-Ben

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:11:24PM -0500, Matt Fuerst wrote:
> 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
> 
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