From: Martin Schmitt (martin@SCHMITT.LI)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 10:25:06 EDT
Hi there!
A client needs OpenSSH updated or installed on a few systems. The guy who
did the original install in some places has left the company a year ago,
and basically nobody knows how OpenSSH has been installed.
I consider myself an (Open)SSH expert, but unfortunately I have a slight
lack of AIX expertise, so maybe one of you can throw in an idea that might
get me on track for solving my problem.
I looked at the OpenSSL/OpenSSH packages combo from bullfreeware.com, and
all I can say about them is, they give me the creeps. Creating 5-level deep
directorys and pulling symlinks across the system is just not what binary
packages are about, thank you very much.
Next, I looked into rolling the thing on my own using GCC. That's an
approach I have lots of good experience with on Slowlaris and FreeBSD, and
just as expected, compiling the combination OpenSSL/PRNGD/OpenSSH works
fine on AIX, just as outlined on:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/aix_ssh/index.html
This creates what I consider a pretty neat install, with startsrc/stopsrc
entries that work like a charm. Some modifications were made, though, to
have things go to /opt instead of /usr/local.
Unfortunately those machines are stuffed. All rootvgs are full (they even
had the mirror taken away to make more room, it's really horrifying), so I
can't install a development environment onto all of them.
Are there alternative binary packages for OpenSSH? The target systems run
4.3.3 and one of them is still on 4.3.2. If I don't find any packages, can
I safely copy my own compiled stuff from one machine to the other?
Thanks in advance everyone,
-martin
-- There are 3 sides to every argument: Mine, yours, and the right side.
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