summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/INSTALL
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDarren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>2007-04-06 12:21:47 +1000
committerDarren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>2007-04-06 12:21:47 +1000
commit62995c1f1e802f378edbb747c84c12f51c75dd61 (patch)
tree0f4587d2dc948ae735ff68b6a032f91aaea80fe6 /INSTALL
parent99203ec48b030f121511cd785acaf9f47760ad72 (diff)
downloadopenssh-git-62995c1f1e802f378edbb747c84c12f51c75dd61.tar.gz
- (dtucker) [INSTALL] Update the systems that have PAM as standard. Link
to OpenPAM too.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r--INSTALL13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index af02c0b4..05696628 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -14,18 +14,21 @@ Blowfish) do not work correctly.)
The remaining items are optional.
-OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your system
-supports it. PAM is standard on Redhat and Debian Linux, Solaris and
-HP-UX 11.
+OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your
+system supports it. PAM is standard most Linux distributions, Solaris,
+HP-UX 11 and AIX >= 5.2.
NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of
/dev/random. If you don't you will have to rely on ssh-rand-helper, which
is inferior to a good kernel-based solution.
-PAM:
+Linux PAM:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
+OpenPAM:
+http://www.openpam.org/
+
If you wish to build the GNOME passphrase requester, you will need the GNOME
libraries and headers.
@@ -251,4 +254,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at
http://www.openssh.com/
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.77 2007/03/02 06:53:41 dtucker Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.78 2007/04/06 02:21:48 dtucker Exp $