Software Configuration?

[nobody]

Can somebody post a good configuration for OpenSSL and OpenSSH? They'll probably be some "fill in the blanks" like the directory for OpenSSL when compiling OpenSSH but that's ok. I just need like a general template.

[asterisk]

I've been wondering about this too. Have been doing some reading up so please correct me if I may be mistaken on any of the points below, am pretty green at this myself.

So far I've discovered that OpenSSH on our boxes use PAM authentication so --with-pam should be added to configure. What other options please as I'm a blur when reading about them.

On a side note, how does the rpm packages know which options to configure and which ones not to by the way? Is there any way this automatic detection, if it exists, can be done when compiling via source?

Any help on this from any gurus around would be really great indeed.