Improve LZO, PAM and OpenSSL documentation
PATCH 1/1 Improve LZO, PAM and OpenSSL documentation
From: Samuli Seppänen <[email protected]...>
Patch provided by Trac user dogbert2
Trac #590
Signed-off-by Samuli Seppänen <[email protected]...>
--- INSTALL | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
INSTALL +20 -1
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ QUICK START: See INSTALL-win32.txt + Compile OpenVPN with OpenSSL/LZO built from source tarballs + + See INSTALL-nonstandard.txt + ************************************************************************* To download OpenVPN, go to:
@@ -71,11 +75,26 @@ REQUIRES: a virtual point-to-point IP or Ethernet device. See TUN/TAP Driver Configuration section below for more info. + (2) PAM/PAM-Devel (Pluggable Authentication Modules). In most + Linux distributions, these packages are usually listed as + the following (here is what they look like on Fedora): + + pam-1.1.8-18.fc22.x86_64.rpm (64-bit package) + pam-devel-1.1.8-18.fc.22.x86_64.rpm (64-bit package) + OPTIONAL (but recommended): (1) OpenSSL library, necessary for encryption, version 0.9.8 or higher - required, available from http://www.openssl.org/ + required, available from http://www.openssl.org/. If you build + OpenSSL from source tarball, you will need to let OpenVPN-2.3.x + know where the libraries and header files were installed to: + + If you configured OpenSSL with stock options, it will install + the headers (i.e. - .h files) in /usr/local/ssl/include and + the libraries (i.e. - .a or .so files) in /usr/local/ssl/lib/openssl + (2) PolarSSL library, an alternative for encryption, version 1.1 or higher required, available from https://polarssl.org/ + (3) LZO real-time compression library, required for link compression, available from http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ OpenBSD users can use ports or packages to install lzo, but remember
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2.5.5
Your patch has been applied to the release/2.3 branch.
(I decided that it makes more sense to apply it to 2.3 only, as the git master INSTALL needs much larger changes - like, current PolarSSL / mbedTLS versions, etc.)
commit 7369420d5db6ebe7dc2f1ae596193f1ea6066f23
Author: Samuli Seppänen Date: Mon May 9 21:55:45 2016 +0300
Improve LZO, PAM and OpenSSL documentation
Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen <[email protected]...>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <[email protected]...>
Message-Id: <[email protected]...>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/11627
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <[email protected]...>--
kind regards,
Gert Doering