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11. Prerequisites
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3
4A C compiler.  Any C89 or better compiler should work.  Where supported,
5configure will attempt to enable the compiler's run-time integrity checking
6options.  Some notes about specific compilers:
7 - clang: -ftrapv and -sanitize=integer require the compiler-rt runtime
8  (CC=clang LDFLAGS=--rtlib=compiler-rt ./configure)
9
10You will need working installations of Zlib and libcrypto (LibreSSL /
11OpenSSL)
12
13Zlib 1.1.4 or 1.2.1.2 or greater (earlier 1.2.x versions have problems):
14http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
15
16libcrypto (LibreSSL or OpenSSL >= 0.9.8f < 1.1.0)
17LibreSSL http://www.libressl.org/ ; or
18OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/
19
20LibreSSL/OpenSSL should be compiled as a position-independent library
21(i.e. with -fPIC) otherwise OpenSSH will not be able to link with it.
22If you must use a non-position-independent libcrypto, then you may need
23to configure OpenSSH --without-pie.  Note that because of API changes,
24OpenSSL 1.1.x is not currently supported.
25
26The remaining items are optional.
27
28NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
29libcrypto (LibreSSL/OpenSSL) to use it. OpenSSH relies on libcrypto's
30direct support of /dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd
31
32PRNGD:
33
34If your system lacks kernel-based random collection, the use of Lutz
35Jaenicke's PRNGd is recommended.
36
37http://prngd.sourceforge.net/
38
39EGD:
40
41If the kernel lacks /dev/random the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is
42supported only if libcrypto supports it.
43
44http://egd.sourceforge.net/
45
46PAM:
47
48OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your
49system supports it. PAM is standard most Linux distributions, Solaris,
50HP-UX 11, AIX >= 5.2, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
51
52Information about the various PAM implementations are available:
53
54Solaris PAM:	http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/
55Linux PAM:	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
56OpenPAM:	http://www.openpam.org/
57
58If you wish to build the GNOME passphrase requester, you will need the GNOME
59libraries and headers.
60
61GNOME:
62http://www.gnome.org/
63
64Alternatively, Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> has written an excellent X11
65passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at:
66
67http://www.jmknoble.net/software/x11-ssh-askpass/
68
69S/Key Libraries:
70
71If you wish to use --with-skey then you will need the library below
72installed.  No other S/Key library is currently known to be supported.
73
74http://www.sparc.spb.su/solaris/skey/
75
76LibEdit:
77
78sftp supports command-line editing via NetBSD's libedit.  If your platform
79has it available natively you can use that, alternatively you might try
80these multi-platform ports:
81
82http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
83http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/
84
85LDNS:
86
87LDNS is a DNS BSD-licensed resolver library which supports DNSSEC.
88
89http://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/
90
91Autoconf:
92
93If you modify configure.ac or configure doesn't exist (eg if you checked
94the code out of CVS yourself) then you will need autoconf-2.69 to rebuild
95the automatically generated files by running "autoreconf".  Earlier
96versions may also work but this is not guaranteed.
97
98http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
99
100Basic Security Module (BSM):
101
102Native BSM support is know to exist in Solaris from at least 2.5.1,
103FreeBSD 6.1 and OS X.  Alternatively, you may use the OpenBSM
104implementation (http://www.openbsm.org).
105
106
1072. Building / Installation
108--------------------------
109
110To install OpenSSH with default options:
111
112./configure
113make
114make install
115
116This will install the OpenSSH binaries in /usr/local/bin, configuration files
117in /usr/local/etc, the server in /usr/local/sbin, etc. To specify a different
118installation prefix, use the --prefix option to configure:
119
120./configure --prefix=/opt
121make
122make install
123
124Will install OpenSSH in /opt/{bin,etc,lib,sbin}. You can also override
125specific paths, for example:
126
127./configure --prefix=/opt --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh
128make
129make install
130
131This will install the binaries in /opt/{bin,lib,sbin}, but will place the
132configuration files in /etc/ssh.
133
134If you are using Privilege Separation (which is enabled by default)
135then you will also need to create the user, group and directory used by
136sshd for privilege separation.  See README.privsep for details.
137
138If you are using PAM, you may need to manually install a PAM control
139file as "/etc/pam.d/sshd" (or wherever your system prefers to keep
140them).  Note that the service name used to start PAM is __progname,
141which is the basename of the path of your sshd (e.g., the service name
142for /usr/sbin/osshd will be osshd).  If you have renamed your sshd
143executable, your PAM configuration may need to be modified.
144
145A generic PAM configuration is included as "contrib/sshd.pam.generic",
146you may need to edit it before using it on your system. If you are
147using a recent version of Red Hat Linux, the config file in
148contrib/redhat/sshd.pam should be more useful.  Failure to install a
149valid PAM file may result in an inability to use password
150authentication.  On HP-UX 11 and Solaris, the standard /etc/pam.conf
151configuration will work with sshd (sshd will match the other service
152name).
153
154There are a few other options to the configure script:
155
156--with-audit=[module] enable additional auditing via the specified module.
157Currently, drivers for "debug" (additional info via syslog) and "bsm"
158(Sun's Basic Security Module) are supported.
159
160--with-pam enables PAM support. If PAM support is compiled in, it must
161also be enabled in sshd_config (refer to the UsePAM directive).
162
163--with-prngd-socket=/some/file allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD
164support and to specify a PRNGd socket. Use this if your Unix lacks
165/dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy
166collection support.
167
168--with-prngd-port=portnum allows you to enable EGD or PRNGD support
169and to specify a EGD localhost TCP port. Use this if your Unix lacks
170/dev/random and you don't want to use OpenSSH's builtin entropy
171collection support.
172
173--with-lastlog=FILE will specify the location of the lastlog file.
174./configure searches a few locations for lastlog, but may not find
175it if lastlog is installed in a different place.
176
177--without-lastlog will disable lastlog support entirely.
178
179--with-osfsia, --without-osfsia will enable or disable OSF1's Security
180Integration Architecture.  The default for OSF1 machines is enable.
181
182--with-skey=PATH will enable S/Key one time password support. You will
183need the S/Key libraries and header files installed for this to work.
184
185--with-md5-passwords will enable the use of MD5 passwords. Enable this
186if your operating system uses MD5 passwords and the system crypt() does
187not support them directly (see the crypt(3/3c) man page). If enabled, the
188resulting binary will support both MD5 and traditional crypt passwords.
189
190--with-utmpx enables utmpx support. utmpx support is automatic for
191some platforms.
192
193--without-shadow disables shadow password support.
194
195--with-ipaddr-display forces the use of a numeric IP address in the
196$DISPLAY environment variable. Some broken systems need this.
197
198--with-default-path=PATH allows you to specify a default $PATH for sessions
199started by sshd. This replaces the standard path entirely.
200
201--with-pid-dir=PATH specifies the directory in which the sshd.pid file is
202created.
203
204--with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary
205
206--with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your Libre/OpenSSL
207libraries
208are installed.
209
210--with-ssl-engine enables Libre/OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support
211
212--with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to
213real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux.
214
215If you need to pass special options to the compiler or linker, you
216can specify these as environment variables before running ./configure.
217For example:
218
219CFLAGS="-O -m486" LDFLAGS="-s" LIBS="-lrubbish" LD="/usr/foo/ld" ./configure
220
2213. Configuration
222----------------
223
224The runtime configuration files are installed by in ${prefix}/etc or
225whatever you specified as your --sysconfdir (/usr/local/etc by default).
226
227The default configuration should be instantly usable, though you should
228review it to ensure that it matches your security requirements.
229
230To generate a host key, run "make host-key". Alternately you can do so
231manually using the following commands:
232
233    ssh-keygen -t [type] -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ""
234
235for each of the types you wish to generate (rsa, dsa or ecdsa) or
236
237    ssh-keygen -A
238
239to generate keys for all supported types.
240
241Replacing /etc/ssh with the correct path to the configuration directory.
242(${prefix}/etc or whatever you specified with --sysconfdir during
243configuration)
244
245If you have configured OpenSSH with EGD support, ensure that EGD is
246running and has collected some Entropy.
247
248For more information on configuration, please refer to the manual pages
249for sshd, ssh and ssh-agent.
250
2514. (Optional) Send survey
252-------------------------
253
254$ make survey
255[check the contents of the file "survey" to ensure there's no information
256that you consider sensitive]
257$ make send-survey
258
259This will send configuration information for the currently configured
260host to a survey address.  This will help determine which configurations
261are actually in use, and what valid combinations of configure options
262exist.  The raw data is available only to the OpenSSH developers, however
263summary data may be published.
264
2655. Problems?
266------------
267
268If you experience problems compiling, installing or running OpenSSH.
269Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
270https://www.openssh.com/
271