# wget http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/openssh/portable/openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz

Check your md5/sha1

(md5sum : ada79c7328a8551bdf55c95e631e7dad)

(sha1sum : 8273a0237db98179fbdc412207ff8eb14ff3d6de)

Next, prepare to build and install the RPM. Disable the building of GUI components in the spec file. We don’t need these on a server:

# tar zxvf openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz
# cp openssh-5.2p1/contrib/redhat/openssh.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
# cp openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# perl -i.bak -pe ‘s/^(%define no_(gnome|x11)_askpass)\s+0$/$1 1/’ openssh.spec
# rpmbuild -bb openssh.spec
# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/`uname -i`
# ls -l
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 275808 Feb 27 08:08 openssh-5.2p1-1.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 439875 Feb 27 08:08 openssh-clients-5.2p1-1.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 277714 Feb 27 08:08 openssh-server-5.2p1-1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh openssh*rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:openssh ########################################### [ 33%]
2:openssh-clients ########################################### [ 67%]
3:openssh-server ########################################### [100%]

# service sshd restart

Check the sshd version you are running by typing:

telnet [host] [port]