[Info-vax] SSH from VMS to 3Par

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-10-06 16:13:02 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 11:12:30 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2021-10-06 15:06:49 +0000, pcov... at gmail.com said:
>> 
>>> has anybody done this successfully and how?
>>> 
>>> evidently the ciphers on both systems can't agree and close the 
>>> connection. is it doable if I have a key on both systems that I've 
>>> generated on my pc? and if so where do I place it on VMS? the 3Par has 
>>> an add option.
>> 
>> If you're not on V5.7 ECO5c or higher (ECO5o is current on Itanium, and 
>> ECO5c is per-call on Alpha), get there, and try ssh again.
>> 
>> If things fail then, use ssh -vvvvvv and check the results of the 
>> negotiation for the key exchange and the cipher from what is available 
>> on both ends of whichever version of 3PAR and OpenVMS you're using here.
> 
> thanks I'll look for it, why didn't anyone from VSI recommend this when 
> I called it in. sigh
> I'm on VSI I64VMS TCPIP V5.7-13ECO5B  and I have the latest SSH patch too.

Why doesn't OpenVMS itself notify the system administrator^Wmanager 
that the server is down-revision?  Sigh. Alas, we all get to track this 
manually, or with our own tooling. VSI does have some new tool arriving 
here, though details are sparse.

One VSI ssh patch featured an interesting collection of directions, and 
the installation instructions were, well, in conflict with the provided 
files. That boo-boo won't hit your case here, though.

Fetch ECO5o from the VSI patch server if that's not already installed, 
and try ssh again.

Then ssh -vvvvv and check for the details of the negotiation failure, 
if an error arises.



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