HPUX 11.0 : Installation & Setup of Open SSH

[LG Porter]

I have a N4000 server running HPUX 11.0. I am attempting to install Open SSH. Is there a good installation instructions available for setting up open ssh on HPUX? I check receiving a message that indicates "Couldn't connect to PRNGD socket "/var/run/egd-pool": No such file or directory ....Entropy collection failed". Is there supposed to be a socket file created for sshd to run?

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

You must install in this order:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.4/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/tcp_wrappers-7.6/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Languages/openssl-0.9.6d/
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/PostAnswer/0,,0x328a402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html


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harry

[harry d brown jr]

Ignore that link back to this post, cut and paste error, sorry.

Here is what the last line should look like:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/openssh-3.4p1/

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harry

[Wodisch]

Hi,

HP delivers an older version of the OpenSSH (3.1 instead of 3.4) as a free product, which you could get from "software.hp.com" and simply "swinstall"...

FWIW,
Wodisch (who's is waiting for this thing to be updated impatiently)

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi LG,

Although Wodisch has a point RE installation ease, I'd recommend the 3.4 version as it has the fix for a well-known exploitation of 3.1.

We download, compile & swpackage our own 3.4 for installation ease. More work up front, but ease of mind on the back-side.

If you're listening HP - it's about time you had the 3.4 pkg available as a swinstall pkg!

My 2 cents,
Jeff

[Roger Baptiste]

<<- in the case of HP -> "listen or die" >>

*LOL* I agree.

[John Morris]

Plese refer to HPSBUX0206-195
"Sec. Vulnerability in OpenSSH on HP-UX" for
information on the latest version of
OpenSSH available from www.software.hp.com.


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Hewlett-Packard Company
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[Mehdi_1]

Hi

The problem above normally is fixed if you restart your PRNGD server.

Also a good site on how to compile and install the openssh on HPUX platform is:


http://www.atomicgears.com/papers/osshhpux.html

I always try to use that site when i am building binary for HPUX Archive.

I hope that helps.