[Info-vax] Viewing SSH users on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-07-28, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/24 7:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:04:01 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't think there was any long-standing VMS support in OpenSSH.  Maybe
>>> you are thinking of LibreSSL, which jettisoned a lot of things,
>>> including anything VMS-specific, when it forked from OpenSSL.
>> 
>> There is only one reason why an open-source project might drop support for
>> a platform: because they can?t find any contributors willing to maintain
>> it.
>
> That was not a reason for what LibreSSL did.

You are correct. I remember the attitude of "stripping out all the
junk and getting back to this pure product".

I did find the following pages with a quick search and which compare the two:

https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/security/9781800560345/2/ch02lvl1sec10/comparing-openssl-with-libressl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25346355

Simon.

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