Yeah ... we need an SSH client too. (We have a sort-of server, but that's another story.)
I tried to build OpenSSL and then OpenSSH on z/OS (USS), but could not get the ./configure step to behave. In particular, both scripts get wedged on a shell file descriptor. (Other packages which follow the standard recipe build pretty well on USS.) Given this wonderful "cradle" (I think it's an LE thing), you can take binaries from USS and run them on OpenVM without additional work. Very nice! ... if they'll just build in the first place. The single biggest challenge on OpenVM (compared to USS) is how it handles fork(). Long story. Not for now. We have the z/OS OpenSSH package (in its SMP/E wrapper). SSH to/from z/OS works just fine. I find that the 'ssh' executable from that runs directly on OpenVM, but fails when it tries to generate (or collect?) entropy or some other step in the encryption game. To be specific, if you enter ssh it gives you the help, but if you enter ssh remotehost it ABENDs. I tried replacing the support program that I thought SSH was after with something that did not ABEND. Didn't help. That was some time back. -- R; Brian Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 02/01/2007 12:24 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> From Brian Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Open SSH on VM Folks, Anybody out there done the port of OPEN-SSH to VM's OE envirornment? Brian Ferguson EDS VM Capability
