The SSLSERV service machine provides SSL wrapping to inbound
transactions on selected ports. I have used it for TN3270, FTP and POP
and HTTP. It does not support outbound transactions. I doubt there is
any OpenSSL code in the IBM provided code. Others have said that porting
OpenSSH to z/VM would be very difficult because of the functions used to
'fork' into threads or daughter tasks (this is where my knowledge of
c/unix programming stops). That does not mean that programs could not be
written to perform outbound commandline tasks like "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -C
'remote command'" or "scp my.file host:/dir/subdir/your.file".
A non-OpenSSH example is PuTTY. This is a collection of programs for the
Windows environment. There is a program that does the terminal traffic
(like the TN3270 client in CMS). A PSCP program that does the SCP
sub-protocol. A PSFTP command to do the SSH secure ftp-like file
transfers. And a PLINK command to do remote commands via SSH protocol.
But I don't think any of it is "OpenSSH". I don't know if PuTTY supports
a daemon function to handle inbound transactions.
But I haven't heard anyone really trying to get CMS to talk to remote
SSH servers.
/Tom Kern
Jorge Souto wrote:
We're currently doing rexec from z/OS to z/VM, but we're wondering if is
it possible to use a secure alternative, like openssh. I've read
something about the z/VM openssl server, but it doesn't provide ssh.
Any experiences?
Thanks
