OpenSSH-3.9p1

The OpenSSH package contains ssh clients and the sshd daemon. This is useful for encrypting authentication and subsequent traffic over a network.

OpenSSH runs as two processes when connecting to other computers. The first process is a privileged process and controls the issuance of privileges as necessary. The second process communicates with the network. Additional installation steps are necessary to set up the proper environment, which are performed by the following commands:

mkdir /var/empty &&
chown root:sys /var/empty &&
groupadd sshd &&
useradd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty -g sshd -s /bin/false sshd

OpenSSH is very sensitive to changes in the linked OpenSSL libraries. If you recompile OpenSSL, OpenSSH may fail to startup. An alternative is to link against the static OpenSSL library. To link against the static library, execute the following command:

sed -i "s:-lcrypto:/usr/lib/libcrypto.a:g" configure

Install OpenSSH by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \
    --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --with-md5-passwords &&
make &&
make install

--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh: This prevents the configuration files from going to /usr/etc.

--with-md5-passwords: This is required if you made the changes recommended by the shadowpasswd_plus LFS hint on your SSH server when you installed the Shadow Password Suite or if you access a SSH server that authenticates by user passwords encrypted with md5.

--libexecdir=/usr/sbin: OpenSSH installs programs called by programs in /usr/libexec. sftp-server is a sshd utility and ssh-askpass is a ssh-add utility that is installed as a link to X11-ssh-askpass. Both of these should go in /usr/sbin not /usr/libexec.

The OpenSSH package contains ssh, sshd, ssh-agent, ssh-add, sftp, scp, ssh-keygen, sftp-server and ssh-keyscan.