[Info-vax] stumped by SSH

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-02-06, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <n94kph$v02$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> BTW, You have not listed the SSH client and server versions and whether
>> they are identical for the SSH access methods used by the accounts on
>> your system.
>
> ssh -V says:
>
> local:  3.2.0 on Alpha
> remote (linux): OpenSSH_6.7p1  
>

So now we know the remote system is a non-VMS box, you need to up the
debugging level on the VMS SSH client and see if the debugging messages
give you any clues.

You also have not said yet whether both the working and non-working
accounts are on the same Linux box. There was an issue where increased
SSH security defaults in recent Linux versions means that the VMS TCP/IP
services client is not considered secure enough and hence connections
from the VMS client are rejected.

>> Also, have you tried increasing the client debug level to see if you
>> get any clues that way ?
>
> No.  This was a completely unexpected error.  I set up an account 
> essentially as a clone of another account, but only the new one has the 
> problems.  Only one of 4 other old accounts has the problem.
>
> REPLY shows only the failure itself and the corresponding UAF 
> modification.
>

I am now seriously confused. Is the remote SSH server a VMS box or
a Linux box ?

Simon.

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