[Info-vax] SSH is hang up on VMS side

[David Froble]

On Nov 23, 2:47 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 12:32 pm, samizahra <sami.z.zahra
>
> %intel.... at gtempaccount.com> wrote:
> > This is the ssh I am currently using on OpenVMS V7.3-2
>
>    So that's on an Alpha system?
>
> > [...]
>
>    How did you get that (mess)?  Possibly more interesting
> would be actual output from:
>
>      tcpip show version
>      ssh "-V"
>
> > and this is how I am calling a linux box to run a script
> > [...]
>
>    How much of this matters?  Does it work without the
> "define /user_mode sys$output"?  Does any command fail, or
> only this script?
>
>    I haven't found a way to reproduce a hang here (with newer
> everything), but some old notes suggest adding:
>       -o "batchmode yes"
> to the "ssh" command.  There's also "-t", which might have
> some benefit (or make even more trouble).

When starting to use SSH, (and that was a sad joke), I determined that
SSH on VMS just didn't want to work correctly below TCP/IP V5.6
ECO-5.  The ECO-5 is a complete new release, not a patch.  Once that
was installed, things worked.  VMS V8.3 on Alpha.