How to install openssh on AIX

How to install openssh on AIX

On AIX

How to install SSH on AIX?

There are a lot of sites where the process is explained.
This article is a small doc so that I can remember and hopefully help others as well looking to install openssh on AIX 5.3.

Fortunately, it’s not very difficult to install!

03 steps:

1/Download the openssh and prerequisite openssl packages from their respective websites.

• openssl: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=aixbp&S_PKG=openssl


• openssh: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openssh-aix/files/openssh-aix53/openssh_5.2p1_aix53.tar.Z/download

2/ Transfer the installation files to a temporary directory on the AIX server (/tmp)

3/ Unpack and install:

Install openSSL

root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh >uncompress openssl.0.9.8.1100.tar.Z
root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh >tar xf openssl.0.9.8.1100.tar
root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh >cd openssl.base 0.9.8.1100/
root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh/openssl.0.9.8.1100 >installp -acXYgd . openssl

Install openssh

root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh >uncompress openssh_5.2p1_aix53.tar.Z
root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh >tar xf openssh_5.2p1_aix53.tar
root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh >cd openssh_5.2p1_aix53
root@banbeit.com:/tmp/ssh/openssh_5.2p1_aix53 >installp -acXYgd . openssh

Once you have installed ssh, you may disable telnet by commenting it out of /etc/inetd.conf and stopping the service:

perl -p -i -e 's/^telnet/\#telnet/g' /etc/inetd.conf
refresh -s inetd