Bug 1043988

Summary: OpenSSH section (incorrectly?) claims openssh requires openssl, others
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday>
Component: doc-Deployment_GuideAssignee: Milan Navratil <mnavrati>
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Version: 6.5CC: plautrba
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2013-12-17 15:00:32 UTC
A grab bag of thoughts on the OpenSSH chapter of the RHEL 6.5 Deployment Guide. Ignore as you wish.

* Intro: In addition to telnet and rsh, I might mention rlogin as something ssh can replace -- lots of people will be familiar with rlogin.

* Intro: Claims that openSSH requires openSSL. Really? I don't see that dependency if I run "rpm -q --whatrequires openssl". Are you sure about this?

* Is there any point mentioning "slogin", which is simply a symlink to ssh?

* Section 13.2.2:
    "chkconfig sshd on
    This will enable the service for all runlevels."

  I'm sure you know that's not true. :-) Levels 2,3,4,5. Not 1.

* Section 13.3, "To connect to an OpenSSH server from a client machine, you must have the openssh-clients and openssh packages installed." Since openssh is a package dependency of openssh-clients, it seems unnecessary to tell the reader to install it.

* Section 13.4.1, X11 Forwarding, doesn't distinguish between trusted and untrusted forwarding, which might confuse some readers.

 I think that's all.

Comment 2 Jaromir Hradilek 2014-06-30 17:19:02 UTC
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this report, Robert.

Comment 3 Petr Lautrbach 2014-08-22 13:51:22 UTC
(In reply to Robert P. J. Day from comment #0)
> * Intro: Claims that openSSH requires openSSL. Really? I don't see that
> dependency if I run "rpm -q --whatrequires openssl". Are you sure about this?
> 

$ rpm -q --requires openssh
...
libcrypto.so.10()(64bit)
libcrypto.so.10(OPENSSL_1.0.1)(64bit)
libcrypto.so.10(OPENSSL_1.0.1_EC)(64bit)
libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit)

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10
openssl-1.0.1e-28.el6.x86_64