[Info-vax] Problem with SSL1 and TCPware

[John Santos]

Warning to anyone running TCPware who wants to install the new SSL
version!

I discovered that TCPware V5.9-2 doesn't work with LDAP (ACME loginout)
on VMS Alpha V8.4 with the new SSL1 v1.0.2-c.

When you try to log in to an account with EXTAUTH flag set, you get an
error message after typing the username:

  "Operation failure; if logging is enabled, see details in the
   ACME$SERVER log file"

I suspect this is due to the same problems or incompatibilities corrected
in the TCPIP_CVE_PAT ECO for HP TCPIP (released in December at the same
time as SSL1.)

I also suspect that this problem (and potentially other undiscovered
problems) occurs on any TCPware version on any platform, since there
don't seem to be any recent patches on the TCPware support web site.

It is possible there are in fact patches, but only available to
supported Process customers; we let support lapse on our one remaining
TCPware system after our last customer who used TCPware upgraded their
Alphas to I64 rx2800's, which came with HP TCP/IP licenses (bundled into
the BOE license.)

I've been meaning to convert from TCPware to HP TCP/IP on this system
since then, as we do still have supported Alpha VMS 8.4/HP TCP customers.
I installed HP TCPIP (and the CVE patch) on it, a little
systartup_vms.com fiddling to get it to start TCPIP instead of TCPware,
and ACMELDAP logins now work fine.

So contact Process Software support before installing SSL1 on a TCPware
system.  The same may apply to Multinet.

-- 
John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.