Upgrade OpenSSL/OpenSSH before install?

[DigitalIsles]

Hello,

I am interested in finding out if it is ok to update OpenSSL and OpenSSH via up2date or RPM before installing/configuring DA?

-Robert

[loopforever]

I'd venture to say it's safe to upgrade openSSH before the DA installation, but not openSSL. I believe openSSL is handled by the installer/custom apache script.

[DigitalIsles]

Hmm.. I know that mod_ssl is handled by the installer, but I don't think that openssl or the openssl libraries are.

Can someone clear this up for us?

-Robert

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Openssl is a lower level system library that is not handled by our customapache script. Openssh isn't either. The best way is to use up2date.. but I'm not even sure that up2date even changes the openssl/ssh versions... I might be wrong, but up2date would be the way to do it.
up2date -u openssl
up2date -u openssh
John

[interfasys]

So could we just remove openssl?

Also, I ran up2date and all I have now is a 0.9.6b release 35.7 but the latest according to openssl.org is OpenSSL 0.9.6l

EDIT
I checked the RH ftp and it seems that they still patch those programs but they don't change the version numbers which is really annoying when we need to know what's installed...

[interfasys]

curl might need that openssl system library