SSH V2 between VAX VMS 7.2.1 and HP system 11.20

[Belinda Dermody]

Has anyone created Keys on a VAX system and installed the public keys on a HP Unix system. I have a customer who has passed me his public keys and we can not get hooked up together, I have about 20 PC to Unix and Unix to Unix on this system working, but this is the 1st VMS connection for me.

[Steven E. Protter]

ON HP

tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

This will help you figure out whats going on.

inetd -l to turn on enhanced logging if its not already done.

I'm attaching a cookbook that should be able to help you verify your setup. Permissions can cause problems.

SEP

[Belinda Dermody]

Stephen, I appreciate your response, but as I already stated, I have 20 Unix to Unix SSH connections and PC to UNIX connections already up and running (I have a script that automatically does everything and sets the permissions correctly (chroot and jail) and plugs in the pub key to the authorized_keys file), the situation is with the VAX VMS 7.2.1, which is at the customer side and I am not familar with VAX VMS to help him/her out.

[Berlene Herren · Accepted solution]

Hello James,
See if you can get to this site... I believe it will help. If not, please contact me.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732final/aa-rvbua-te/aa-rvbua-te.html

bherren@

[Colin Topliss]

Try the -v option to ssh and post the result. It might give you a clue as to where the problem is occurring.

Are the SSH versions different. I had all sorts of trouble trying to get Commercial SSH (V2) and OpenSSH (V2) talking to one another - there was an extra step required to do a conversion on the key. Perhaps something similar is happening here?

Col.