[Info-vax] OpenVMS SSH to freeSSHd on Windows

[Steven Schweda]

On Nov 12, 1:39 am, Sum1 <n... at here.com> wrote:

> Seriously, you mean that when I tell you it is v5.6 and that
> the components are all 5.6-9, that doesn't tell you enough.
> [...]

   Seriously, you're asking questions here because you can't
figure this stuff out on your own, and you think that you
know better than I which information would be useful?  I
suppose that that would explain why you failed to answer some
of the other questions posed.  (How you expect to get answers
without providing them is another mystery.)

   Among other things, "tcpip show version" reveals which ECO
has been applied to the base software.  Around here, for
example:

alp $ tcpip show version

  HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6 - ECO 5
  on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V8.3

> freeSSHd server refused to accept the OpenVMS certificate

   Swell.  With my weak psychic powers, I can't see why.  I
also can't see any of your key files, or where you put them,
or who owns them, or what their permissions/protections are.
Nor any of the "ssh -v" diagnostics.

> [...] as I stated elsewhere, there are *NO* SSH commands on
> the server [...]

   You also stated:

> I have tried generating keys using:
> - ssh-keygen -t dsa fred
> - ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 fred
> - ssh-keygen -t rsa fred
> - ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024 fred

So, _where_ did you do that, if you have no ssh-keygen
program?  And, if you have an ssh-keygen program, then why
can't you use it to convert the key files?

> Well, it doesn't - it is a completely different version of
> SSH apparently - or so the True64 people tell me and I am not
> a True64 user.

   Once again, my psychic powers are too weak to tell me
which SSH software is running on your Tru64 (not "True64")
system.  Possibly informative would be:

      sizer -v
      ssh -V