[Info-vax] Viewing SSH users on VMS
Chris Townley
news at cct-net.co.uk
Sat Jul 27 19:13:52 EDT 2024
On 28/07/2024 00:03, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/27/2024 6:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 16:58:34 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> VSI obvious can and probably should add it to the VMS port.
>>
>> For “port” read “fork”.
>>
>> Unless these sorts of changes get accepted upstream, you end up with the
>> burden of maintaining your own parallel version, and keeping up with
>> upstream developments.
>>
>> Somehow, I don’t think they have the resources for that.
>
> For a product that is important security wise it makes
> sense to keep up.
>
> And I don't think it should be that bad. 30 years ago one
> would create and reapply diffs. Today I believe Git can handle
> it.
>
> Arne
>
It does worry me a bit that VSI are making their own versions of these
packages, rather than putting them back into the packages as VMS
variants, that they will maintain within the package. Surely that would
imply commitment to the package, as well as the platform
--
Chris
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