Re: installing openssh on AIX 5.2

Hello Guys!

Thanks for your help! I was not able to solve then "PRNG not seeded" problem with AIX 5.2, so I updated everything to AIX 5.3. Now ssh is working properly.

Of course the migration was another long story!

Richard


base60 wrote:

Richard Kopec wrote:

Hello guys!

I am running AIX 5.2.0.0 on an IBM 43p-150. I currently have openssh 3.5.0.0 (freeware.openssh.rte 3.5.0.0) installed, which apparently does not provide a ssh daemon. My university recently disabled ftp in favor of sftp protocols. I am unable to establish an sftp connection to my 150, but I can establish a client connection from my 150. As I understand, the sshd must be active for this to be possible.

So I tried to update openssh, which I found required openssl, which I do not have installed. I have tried various permutations of installing openssl and openssh, and every time the installation fails, each time with a different error. Rather than trying to catalogue all the permutations and problems I encountered, it might help if someone could tell me which packages to install, and in what order. I currently have bff or rpm files for:

3.8.1p1.tar.Z
openssl-0.9.7g-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.6m-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.6m-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.7g-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
openssl-doc-0.9.6m-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
openssl-doc-0.9.6m-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
openssh-3.8.1p1_51.tar.Z openssl-doc-0.9.7g-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
openssh-3.8.1p1_52.tar.Z
openssh-4.1p1_52.tar.Z
openssl-0.9.6m-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm
openssl-0.9.6m-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm


The current openssh is 4.2p1 and available from www.openssh.org
and the current openssl is .98a

Assuming you have compilers etc., both will compile and install on
AIX 5.2 without issue.

./configure --help will give you the options.

You should include tcp_wrappers in the build and it will simplify your
life add "--with-rand-helper" to the openssh




I found some instructions on the web that specified use of 4.3.3 openssl files,

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/aixbman/security/openssh.htm


but that did not make sense to me. I am only a part-time server person, so any advice you can provide would help. I would really like to be able to set up sftp servce to this server.

A complicating factor is that I ahve never been able to successfully build a freeware package on this machine, usually because some library was missing somewhere, so I have had to rely on installp and rpm files to install software.
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