Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ] XTR French Interface + OpenSSH or SSH 2.4

[Roman Sainz <rsainz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:09 a.m. 05/19/01 -0400, you wrote:


> Hiya all.
>
> We just acquired this nice piece of hardware, very nice indeed, altough
> Cobal seams to do everythin that is in their power to 'block' any
> user-customization. I understand that such customization can void our
> warranty, but, as a small ISP, absolutelly need to do this.
>
> First, I just figured out were all the text data from the GUI is located
> ... /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/ui.mo ... This seams to be a GNU
> message Catalog. I tried to edit it, but when I try to translate it in
> French, word are choped on the GUI, over the Web ...

I could not help on this one, as I have not tried (yet) but will be very 
happy to know, if you accomplish this.


> Second, we tried to install the Tarball of SSH 2.4, and we got numerous
> error message of files missing + directories not present ...

As for the tarball installation of openssh, here are my notes for instalation.

I needed to upgrade the OpenSSL libs, and, as I did not wanted to interfeer 
with the already installed SSL libraries, I set them in appart directories.

http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.6a.tar.gz
21:52:43 (136.42 KB/s) - `openssl-0.9.6a.tar.gz' saved [2133646/2133646]

tar -xvzf openssl-0.9.6a.tar.gz

./config --prefix=/home/opt/openssl --openssldir=/etc/openssl

make

make test

make install

#Done OpenSSL.

Now the SSH.

#ftp://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-2.5.2p2.tar.gz
#21:12:17 (54.78 KB/s) - `openssh-2.5.2p2.tar.gz' saved [610450]

Once again, I decided NOT to use standar directorioes, but rtrather the 
/opt one.
Also went for the PAM autentication.

./configure --prefix=/home/opt/ssh --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh 
--with-tcp-wrappers --with-ssl-dir=/home/opt/openssl/ --with-pam



make

As I used PAM, I needed to copy the config files

cp /openssh-2.5.2p2/contrib/sshd.pam.generic /etc/pam.d/sshd

Also, I wanted my sshd to run from inend (so I could host.deny it)

Insert into /etc/inetd.conf

ssh  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /home/opt/ssh/sbin/sshd -i

Note the '-i'  otherwise, you get errors about the port already in use (by 
the tcpwrapers)

Restart the inet

kill -HUP `head /var/run/inetd.pid`

Add documentation conf (if you wish)
edit /etc/man.config
add

MANPATH /home/opt/ssh/man

All should be ok, let me know, if it didn't.





Román Sainz
Gerente de Tecnología
rsainz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.emtechnologies.net/