SSH daemon for VMS

[dom kris]

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

[Mobeen_1 · Accepted solution]

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

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

regards
Mobeen

[dom kris]

Thanks!

[Mobeen_1]

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

[dom kris]

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

[Martin Vorlaender]

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

[Mobeen_1]

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

regards
Mobeen

[Ian Miller.]

Included in TCPIP Services for VMS V5.4

[dom kris]

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?

[Ian Miller.]

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

[Ian Miller.]

see also how to build openssl on vms instructions on

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

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

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

[dom kris]

Thanks for the info guys!

[Anton van Ruitenbeek]

Kris,

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

AvR

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

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