This has been tested by me on CentOS 5. It allegedly works on CentOS 4 as well.
# yum install gcc
# yum install openssl-devel
# yum install pam-devel
# yum install rpm-build
Grab a download of the Portable OpenSSH source from here:
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/Prepare, build and install the RPM. Disable the building of GUI components in the spec file. We don’t need these on a server:
# tar zxvf openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz
# cp openssh-5.2p1/contrib/redhat/openssh.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
# cp openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# perl -i.bak -pe 's/^(%define no_(gnome|x11)_askpass)s+0$/$1 1/' openssh.spec
# rpmbuild -bb openssh.spec
# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/`uname -i`
# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275808 Feb 27 08:08 openssh-5.2p1-1.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 439875 Feb 27 08:08 openssh-clients-5.2p1-1.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277714 Feb 27 08:08 openssh-server-5.2p1-1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh openssh*rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:openssh ########################################### [ 33%]
2:openssh-clients ########################################### [ 67%]
3:openssh-server ########################################### [100%]
# service sshd restart
The RPM should install cleanly on CentOS 4. On CentOS 5, after installation,
service ssh restart throws a warning that initlog is obsolete. I work around this by keeping a copy of the old /etc/init.d/sshd and restoring it after RPM installation.
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