thansk to everyone. Turns out i'm an idiot.
The packages I listed above are all that's required.
Once the packages are installed, you can start the ssh daemon via
/etc/init.d/openssh.server
Turns out that originally, this wasnt working because I was erroneously installing these packages onto A solaris 2.51 machine and not 2.6. I'm blaming a co-worker for this
thanks again everyone