Solaris

1. If 'configure' can't find ssl, change the configure command to:

   ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl-dir=\ /usr/local/ssl --with-tcp-wrappers

2. Sometimes compilation of openssh bombs out with the following error messages:

   sshd.c:1660: error: storage size of req isn't known sshd.c:1663: warning: implicit declaration of function fromhost sshd.c:1660: warning: unused variable req

3. Another frequent problem is that configure bombs out with the message:

   configure: error: Your OpenSSL headers do not match your library

   The easiest solution is to go to your openssl directory and type:

   make install cd include/openssl cp * /usr/include/openssl/ cp * /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/

   Compile openssh, using the following command line, and substitute the appropriate path after --with-ssl-dir :

   ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-tcp-wrappers \ --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl make make install

4. If it says:

   Connecting to carbon... OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90603f, you have 90607f Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

   Get rid of your old libcrypto libraries in /usr/lib and rerun ldconfig:

   cd /usr/local/ssl/lib cp * /usr/lib/ ldconfig

   Then rebuild and reinstall openssh (make clean; make; make install), and restart sshd.
5. Sometimes ssh has the following connection problem:
   On client

   Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0 Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

   On server

   sshd[7079]: Accepted password for tjnelson from 63.127.146.196 port 32777 ssh2 sshd[7079]: subsystem request for sftp sshd[7079]: error: subsystem: cannot stat /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server: No such file or directory sshd[7079]: subsystem request for sftp failed, subsystem not found

   To solve this problem, do the following:
   Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add:

   Subsystem sftp /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server Protocol 2

   Create /usr/libexec and make a link to sftp-server. For some reason sshd sometimes looks there instead of the path specified in its configuration file.

   mkdir /usr/libexec cd /usr/libexec ln -s /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server sftp-server

   Stop and start sshd (don't restart, because the port takes a while to close).

   cd /etc/rc.d ./sshd stop ./sshd restart

6. If it says:

   checking for socklen_t equivalent... configure: error: Cannot find a type to use in place of socklen_t

   this means your computer is totally screwed, and you should take it out back and shoot it.
7. If it says:

   sshd re-exec requires execution with an absolute path

   The startup script needs to be modified to include the full path of sshd.
8. If it says:

   Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

   This can happen after an upgrade when you change from PAM to password authentication. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_conf and change PasswordAuthentication to yes.

Problem description: - ./explorer[76]: HOSTID: is read only

#pwd

/opt/SUNWexplo/bin

# ./explorer

./explorer[76]: HOSTID: is read only

Solution: -

# find / -name exp_main

/opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main

# file /opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main

/opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main: executable /bin/ksh script

# grep -i hostid /opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main

# Save HOSTID

HOSTID=`hostid`

export HOSTID EXP_MAIN_VERSION

EXP_SERIAL=`eval echo $"EXP_SERIAL_${HOSTID}"`

# Translate %H to hostid

EXP_SUBJECT=`echo ${EXP_SUBJECT} | sed -e "s~%H~${HOSTID}~g"`

echo "Hostid: \c" >>${EXP_TARGET}/README

hostid >>${EXP_TARGET}/README

EXP_ID="explorer.${HOSTID}.`uname -n`-`date -u +\%Y.\%m.\%d.\%H.\%M`"

eval "EXP_SERIAL_${HOSTID}"=${exp_parms[44]}

Take backup

# cp -p /opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main /opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main.20090609.MUR

Comment below entry to solve this issue and then re-run the explorer script.

# vi /opt/SUNWexplo/lib/exp_main

HOSTID=`hostid`