Actually, there are Slackware packages available for OpenSSH. It might be just as easy to grab them from the ftp site. You want ossllibs.tgz, openssl.tgz and openssh.tgz. Eric On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:05:46AM -0600, Jima wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Munir Nassar wrote: > > > Ok, i banished Mandrake from my server forever and > > replaced it with Slackware, worked like a charm... > > > > samba is up and running no problems whatsoever... i > > was able to recompile the kernel and some other stuff > > (links, lftp, vim, openssl+openssh) overall i would > > say a very good experience.... > > > > i am having some problems with LILO and OpenSSH i will > > spam you guys more know once i have more info.. > > As for the OpenSSH thing, I'd suggest adding "--with-md5-passwords" to > your variables when running ./configure. That's one annoying detail I've > run into installing OpenSSH on Slackware -- OpenSSH assumes that unless > the system has PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) support, it doesn't > use MD5 passwords. Veeery annoying. And on systems that *do* use PAM > (i.e. RedHat), you have to copy the sshd.pam file in the contrib directory > to /etc/pam.d/sshd or wherever. > Look at it this way: When I discovered this minor fluke, I was installing > OpenSSH on a 486/25, I believe. (Not mine.) Boy, did that compile take a > long time. > (I'd say this is a pretty good guess for having no details aside from the > distribution. ;) > Hope this helps. > > Jima > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >