topic Re: SSH daemon for VMS in Operating System - OpenVMS

SSH daemon for VMS

dom kris — Mon, 17 May 2004 04:24:03 GMT

Hi,

the VMS admin here wants to know if there is an SSH daemon (preferably OpenSSH) available for VMS?

Personally I don't know anything about VMS so this question might not be relevant.

Anyway, any help much appreciated.

Kris

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Mobeen_1 — Mon, 17 May 2004 04:26:48 GMT

Kris,
Yes its available and the following is the url.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ssh/ssh.html

regards
Mobeen

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

dom kris — Mon, 17 May 2004 04:31:07 GMT

Thanks!

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Mobeen_1 — Mon, 17 May 2004 04:34:57 GMT

Kris,
You are welcome. Hey by the way, i think thats probably not free :-). Any way check it out and let us know if you have any questions.

regards
Mobeen

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

dom kris — Mon, 17 May 2004 04:42:40 GMT

We just downloaded it. It seems free but yo have register first. Then you are send an e-mail with the download location.
Now we still have to test it

Kris

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Martin Vorlaender — Mon, 17 May 2004 05:19:22 GMT

It should be mentioned that HP's SSH isn't the only implementation.

Process Software also has one, though not based on OpenSSH. But then, it's out of the test stage already, and also works with older versions of VMS and TCP/IP Services.

http://www.process.com/tcpip/ssh.html

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Mobeen_1 — Mon, 17 May 2004 05:26:31 GMT

Kris,
Thats good. Enjoy and let us know if you have any specific questions

regards
Mobeen

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Ian Miller. — Mon, 17 May 2004 06:27:01 GMT

Included in TCPIP Services for VMS V5.4

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

dom kris — Mon, 17 May 2004 06:29:08 GMT

the problem is that we are still running vms 7.2.1 with tcp services 5.0
Anybody has idea how feasible it is to compile OpenSSH on VMS?

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Ian Miller. — Mon, 17 May 2004 15:32:03 GMT

with that version I think you may be better looking at the tcpware one. It does work with older ucx v5 too.

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Ian Miller. — Mon, 17 May 2004 15:35:06 GMT

see also how to build openssl on vms instructions on

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws_source.html#buildopenssl

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 17 May 2004 22:19:12 GMT

Hello Kris,

the best product is the one from Process. You do have to pay for it.

As mentioned TCP/IP 5.4 comes with SSH and as long as you want to use it for interactive logins (replacing telnet) this works pretty well. SCP and SFTP seem to be broken still (as well as ssh -x). This is most probably "free" as the TCP license is most of the time part of a bundle you get with the box. Minimum VMS version is 7.3-1 IIRC.

If you have something older and do not want to spend money on the Process product have a look around for the SSH server that David Jones (of OSU server fame) did way back. It has its limitations but might help you to bridge the time until you can upgrade.

Greetings, Martin

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

dom kris — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:36:52 GMT

Thanks for the info guys!

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Anton van Ruitenbeek — Fri, 28 May 2004 04:11:59 GMT

Kris,

If you're using HP TCPIP 5.4 you should go to ECO 1 (for sure if you're using SSH !!)

AvR

Re: SSH daemon for VMS

Martin P.J. Zinser — Mon, 31 May 2004 20:34:11 GMT

Actually he should go to ECO 2 as soon as it comes it, since this is supposed to fix further SSH problems (esp. for scp and sftp) according to private communication I received from hp.

Cheers, Martin