I finally got around to upgrading SSH on my systems; all the Solaris 9
systems are ok, and all but one of the Solaris 8 systems are ok.  The
one that is giving me fits gives me this error when I try to use ssh on
that box as anyone but root:

/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: Permission denied

I can ssh into the system with no problems, but if I try to scp or use
sftp I get that error.  Or, if I am already logged into the system as a
non privalaged user and try anything with ssh I get it, i.e.

ssh -V
ld.so.1: ssh: fatal: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: Permission
denied
Killed


I compared the permissions of this file to the same file on other
working Sol. 8 boxes, they are identical.  I found a similar problem
online and did all the things reccomended:

1) Lastest version of libgcc (3.2.1 or later I believe) needs to be
installed.

2) Latest version of OpenSSL libs (0.9.7e or later I belive) needs to
be installed.

3) Latest version of zlib (1.2.1 or later I believe) needs to be
installed

4) Lastest version of Perl (5.6.1 or later I believe) needs to be
installed, on top of this, I need to link /usr/bin/perl from older
5.005 version to the latest version.

# cd /usr/bin
# mv perl perl5005
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl perl
# perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.5 built for sun4-solaris

5) For Solaris8, random device patch 112438-03 or later needs to be
installed.
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I still get this error and can't for the life of me figure out
why...has anyone else seen this?

tonij67@hotmail.com writes:

>I finally got around to upgrading SSH on my systems; all the Solaris 9
>systems are ok, and all but one of the Solaris 8 systems are ok.  The
>one that is giving me fits gives me this error when I try to use ssh on
>that box as anyone but root:

>/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: Permission denied

>I can ssh into the system with no problems, but if I try to scp or use
>sftp I get that error.  Or, if I am already logged into the system as a
>non privalaged user and try anything with ssh I get it, i.e.

>ssh -V
>ld.so.1: ssh: fatal: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: Permission
>denied


Well, check the permission of the path and all directory components;
clearly there's a restrictive permission someplace.


Casper
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Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

I compared file and directory permissions, they are identical to all of
the other systems that work.  That is why I am scratching my head on
this one...

Just as a quick check, can you show the output of

ls -l /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8

and a ls -ld on each directory in that path (ls -ld /usr , ls -ld
/usr/local and so on...)

What does ldd /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 show you ? How
about getfacl /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 ?

Ack, I retract my earlier statement :)

Looks like /usr/local/ssl actually did have a different permission; it
was not world readable like the other systems that worked.  I changed
it to match the working systems and all is well now.  Why the
permissions were different is beyond me...

Thanks for the input everyone!