Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:11:15 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: "Adam" <adamtuttle@sympatico.ca>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Updating SSH Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020315200915.00c52850@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <008701c1cc74$ed707f50$126cfea9@a4ibmrrll9362k> References: <20020315225713.40260.qmail@web11702.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 17:58 2002/03/15 -0500, Adam wrote: >The reply from Scott helped me out alot.. Ill paste it below: > >"Hi Adam > >The question should actually go to freebsd-questions rather than newbies, >but as my sendmail server has DNS problems and I can't cc either list I'll >just answer :) I'm back home now, where I can write the list as well. :) The original solution came from Michael Smith, just wanted to give proper credit--my email to Adam was taken from Mr. Smith's post which I found on deja. (I'd run into various problems myself, when I tried to upgrade) The configuration parameters given below are all Mr. Smith's ( I did the more detailed explanation of untarring gz files) Scott >The easy way....rather than using ports do this. >Just get the source from (sorry about the word wrap there) > >ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-3.1p1.tar.gz > >It compiles with no trouble, as long as you specify your directory structure >in the Configure. I used: > >./configure --with-pam --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --prefix=/usr >make >make install >killall -HUP sshd > >Then it upgrades without conflict. >Just in case you're not familiar with tar.gz files. > >First download the abovementioned file >then >tar -zxvf openssh*.tar.gz > >You'll see a bunch of stuff happening. >You'll now, in addition to the tar.gz file, have another directory called >openssh-3.1 something, or perhaps just 3.1 >cd openssh* >from there, the stuff given above > >./configure --with-pam --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --prefix=/usr >make >make install >killall -HUP sshd > >HTH >Scott >" >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Wade Dixon" <wmd2001@yahoo.com> >To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> >Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 5:57 PM >Subject: Re: Updating SSH > > > > I'm also having problems. Using the instructions > > included in the security advisory [For SSH included in > > the base system], after I type in "patch < > > /path/to/sshd.patch" (yes I put the real path in), it > > asks what file to patch and I'm not sure what it wants > > here. > > > > Wade > > > > --- Adam <adamtuttle@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > Im having problems updating SSH like im told to on > > > the site. Could anyone walk me through the easiest > > > way of installing the patch? > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage > > http://sports.yahoo.com/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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