06-10-2011
Solaris 8 did not have an included ssh, so you had to use openssh. Solaris 10 includes ssh. Not sure about Solaris 9. I have recently succeeded in getting folks around here to stop installing openssh on Solaris 10. The Solaris 10 ssh is good enough and I don't see any reason to install openssh. But to answer your question, it certainly is possible to do so.
The main difference I see between the two is how the crypto stuff is done. Openssh depends on the sweet crypto library in openssl. The Solaris 10 ssh uses something that Sun calls "the Solaris cryptographic framework". We still install openssl because lots of other stuff needs it. Also the openssl command itself is great for various scripting applications. I can't find it now, but I remember reading something that indicated that the Solaris framework can use special crypto hardware if it's present. That's pretty cool and it's a good reason to prefer Solaris ssh over openssh.
A secondary consideration is that Solaris ssh is officially supported by Sun (or Oracle).
But if anyone knows a good reason to install openssh on Solaris 10, please speak up. I would welcome another point of view on the subject.
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ssh-ldap-helper
SSH-LDAP-HELPER(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SSH-LDAP-HELPER(8)
NAME
ssh-ldap-helper -- sshd helper program for ldap support
SYNOPSIS
ssh-ldap-helper [-devw] [-f file] [-s user]
DESCRIPTION
ssh-ldap-helper is used by sshd(1) to access keys provided by an LDAP. ssh-ldap-helper is disabled by default and can only be enabled in the
sshd configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config by setting AuthorizedKeysCommand to ``/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-ldap-wrapper''.
ssh-ldap-helper is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from sshd(8) via ssh-ldap-wrapper.
The options are as follows:
-d Set the debug mode; ssh-ldap-helper prints all logs to stderr instead of syslog.
-e Implies -w; ssh-ldap-helper halts if it encounters an unknown item in the ldap.conf file.
-f ssh-ldap-helper uses this file as the ldap configuration file instead of /etc/ssh/ldap.conf (default).
-s ssh-ldap-helper prints out the user's keys to stdout and exits.
-v Implies -d; increases verbosity.
-w ssh-ldap-helper writes warnings about unknown items in the ldap.conf configuration file.
SEE ALSO
sshd(8), sshd_config(5), ssh-ldap.conf(5),
HISTORY
ssh-ldap-helper first appeared in OpenSSH 5.5 + PKA-LDAP .
AUTHORS
Jan F. Chadima <jchadima@redhat.com>
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