November 1999
Beginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
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Installing SSLeay
Samba uses the SSLeay package, written by Eric Young, to provide Secure Sockets Layer support on the server side. Because of U.S. export law, however, the SSLeay package cannot be shipped with Samba distributions that are based in the United States. For that reason, the Samba creators decided to leave it as a separate package entirely. You can download the SSLeay distribution from any of the following sites:
The latest version as of this printing is 0.9.0b. Download it to the same server as the Samba distribution, then uncompress and untar it. You should be left with a directory entitled SSLeay-0.9.0b. After changing to that directory, you will need to configure and build the SSL encryption package in the same way that you did with Samba.
SSLeay uses a Perl-based configure script. This script modifies the Makefile that constructs the utilities and libraries of the SSLeay package. However, the default script is hardcoded to find Perl at /usr/local/bin/perl. You may need to change the configure script to point to the location of the Perl executable file on your Unix system. For example, you can type the following to locate the Perl executable:
# which perl
/usr/bin/perlThen modify the first line of the configure script to ...
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