OpenSSL & OpenSSH Installation (From Source)

Installing ssl and ssh will be somehow straightforward task after installing the AIX Linux Toolbox. Both openssl and openssh source tar balls support AIX 6, means that, it correctly guesses the machine type and operating system without modification any config file. Giving an installation directory (i.e. prefix) when installing a program from the source is a good practice. Otherwise 'make install' command scatters the files to various directories (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.) and removing the s/w can be very tedious task in such a case.

OpenSSL

./config --prefix=/www/ssl -shared
make
make install

giving the -shared parameter will be a good idea in order to have shared object library files.

OpenSSH

./config --prefix=/www/ssh --with-ssl-dir
make
make install