[Info-vax] TCPWare SSH client/server question

[Chris Townley]

On 07/01/2021 18:39, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 07/01/2021 18:27, Jim wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 9:04:02 AM UTC-5, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> Not sure if I am being silly, but I now have 2 nodes running tcpware
>>> (TCPware(R) V6.0-0 Copyright (c) Process Software, OpenVMS version 
>>> V8.4-2L1)
>>> I have only enabled ssh2 connections.
>>>
>>> If I connect from PC I connect fine, but if I connect from VMS, I get
>>> the key exchange error
>>>
>>> warning: Could not read private key DKA100:[TOWNLEYC.SSH2]ID_RSA_MERLIN
>>>
>>> and I get prompted for password.
>>>
>>> Looking at the file protections:
>>>
>>> SSH2.DIR;1 [CCT,TOWNLEYC] (RWE,RWE,RE,E)
>>>
>>> ID_RSA_MERLIN.;2 [CCT,TOWNLEYC] (RW,RW,,)
>>> ID_RSA_MERLIN.PUB;2 [CCT,TOWNLEYC] (RWED,RWED,RE,R)
>>>
>>> Seems OK to me, so I must be missing something.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> Try removing all G and W access from both the directory and the key pair.
> 
> Thanks, but exactly the same.
> 
> Chris

In fact the TCPWare manual specifically states that world read is 
required on the public key.

I think a part of the problem is due to it being an RSA key - the SSH2 
client seems not to support RSA keys, so working on that

Chris