Re: OpenSSH 3.8 Released

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:11:57 +0000 (UTC)

In article <c1rce5$r36$1@usenet.cso.niu.edu>,
Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker) writes:
>>What is this required for? PAM/AFS?
>
>It is needed for establishing NISPLUS credentials and for secure NFS.
>There are many solaris sites that depend on this.

I'd like to understand what's going on in this case (I have a reasonable
idea, and I have a couple of ideas for solving it, but none of them are
easy).

>Previous openssh versions linked using the needed "-R" flags, so that
>the runtime location of the openssl libraries is properly set in the
>binary. That does not happen with this release. I had to set
>"LD_RUN_PATH" before compiling, in order for that to work properly.

Does the configure option "--with-rpath" make a difference? 

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