> I've installed openssh 2.1.1. on a RedHat Linux (6.2)
> Machine. My version of
> openssl is 0.9.5a.
> The installation openssh succeeded without errors, but when I
> try to login
> my password is always rejected.
> This are the messages take from /var/log/messages.
> Maybe anyone who could help me?
<RH6.2>
it looks like you installed from tarball (as did i - the rehat
offered rpm's are out of date last i checked)
upgrade to make sure your version is 2.1.1p1
in the contrib/redhat directory there are a few essentials
for getting your system to work under RH6.2:
(check these paths- i'm typing them from memory)
cp contrib/redhat/sshd.init /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd
cp contrib/redhat/sshd.pam /etc/pam.d/sshd
(its very important that they are namechanged as such)
(add your sshd service )
su -c 'chkconfig add sshd'
generate a host key, its in the documentation on how to do it
make sure it is in the correct path location. (/usr/local/etc ?)
make sure your sshd_config is properly done as well. reading through
and understanding *each* line is a prereq to serving it i think...
start your sshd service, and try to login from the loopback interface.
under a fresh install of rh6.2 and openssl+openssh it does work.
