PingID Administration Guide

Troubleshooting the PingID SSH installation on Solaris 10

Dealing with problems with Solaris 10.

If you are experiencing problems with Solaris 10, checking the following items may assist.

  • Run the pkginfo command. The output might be helpful to find missing packages and for general investigation of Solaris hosts

  • Check the console output and contents of config.log file produced during execution of the ./configure script. It plays vital role in investigation of compilation/installation issues

  • If you use opencsw repository to satisfy requirements of PingID SSH, then the libcurl4, libcurl_dev,libssl1_0_0,libssl_dev,libcares_dev,librtmp_dev,libssh2_dev,libkrb5_dev,libbrotli_dev and openldap_dev packages are mandatory (this list is far longer than the official requirements due to a bug in curl-config from opencsw repository). These libraries can be installed with the command:

    /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i libcurl4 libcurl_dev libssl1_0_0 libssl_dev libcares_dev librtmp_dev libssh2_dev libkrb5_dev libbrotli_dev openldap_dev

  • curl-config allows the ./configure script to locate libcurl dependencies and their location, so it is preferable to have the containing directory of curl-config in the PATH (for example, /opt/csw/bin). Solaris 11 hosts usually do not require any additional changes in this regard.

  • If you use the opencsw repository it is preferable to install and use a more modern compiler, than default GCC which comes with the operating system. One such compiler can be installed with the /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i gcc5core command. Preference to the latter GCC over the original one is achieved by setting /opt/csw/bin ahead of /usr/sfw/bin in the command below:

    export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

  • If the cURL and OpenSSL libraries are installed outside of the default-search-path-for-libraries-during-linking (which are usually /lib and /usr/lib), then it is preferable to add this path via the LDFLAGS variable when calling the ./configure script. For example, if these libraries are installed into /opt/csw/lib, the ./configure command becomes:

    LDFLAGS="-L/opt/csw/lib"
./configure --with-pam --prefix=/usr