[Info-vax] Problem with SSL1 and TCPware

[Zorro]

Zorro avait écrit le 07/03/2022 :
> Zorro a couché sur son écran :
>> Après mûre réflexion, John Santos a écrit :
>>> 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.