Agreed - you can bypass the rand helper if ICSF is enabled for
/dev/random support, which is more secure and *much* faster.
But ssh will also need to find ssh_config in /etc/ssh.

For a complete list of files, check the IBM Ported Tools manual.

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:17:51 +0100, MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI wrote:
>>
>>This time I have a new goal, from the z/OS connect thru SSH to a Linux server 
>>and send a command.
>>
> MVS-OE might provide better answers than this list.
>
>>Found that the ssh command cannot be executed in the TSO OMVS environment, so 
>>it must be done batch.
>>
> Not "must".  It should work equally in an ssh interactive session.  Catch 22?
>
>>The job returns this message:
>>
>>(rand child) Couldn't exec '/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-rand-helper': EDC5129I No such 
>>file or directory.
>>ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data
>>
>>COND CODE 3840
>>
>>I look for the folder contents
>>MYUSER:/ZOSAA/usr/lib/ssh: >ls
>>IBM              ssh-askpass      ssh-rand-helper
>>sftp-server      ssh-keysign
>>
>>
>>The member ssh-rand-helper exists.
>>
>>What I am missing?
>>Some help about it?
>>
> Permissions?
>
> If you can enable ICSF for random number generation, you might get
> better performance in addition to bypassing this problem.
>
> -- gil
>
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