From: Fairfield@SLAC.Stanford.EDU Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 6:48 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Does CompaQ TCP/IP support secure shell? In article , Jon writes: > Anyone know if CompaQ TCP/IP support use of a secure shell? Also, > if any add-ons are needed, could you give me a reference? Thanks! At present, TCP/IP Services does not include SSH support, although I've heard rumors here that it will be added in a future release. (Did anyone hear something more definite at CETS 2000?) The most recent release of Process Software's Multinet includes both an SSH client and server (daemon), and their TCPware product will also include these in the next release (soon I believe). There is a freely available SSH Server from Dave Jones at OSU (Ohio State University) that we've been running for quite some time now. See http://er6s1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jonesd/ssh/ . This will build and run under TCP/IP Services (or the older UCX) as well as Multinet and TCPware. We use the OSU SSH Server in "production", but on our busiest node, it "disappears" every few weeks and needs to be restarted. I haven't considered that sufficiently annoying to have tried to track down the problem... There is a freely available SSH client for VMS, called FISH. See ftp://ftp.lp.se/vms/fishu1006.zip (and fishu2006.patch if you want to have a little more control of the enviroment using logical names). Also see http://www.free.lp.se/fish/ for an overview. Unfortunately, FISH does _not_ do X11 forwarding and the author, Richard Levitte, seems to have dropped further development, at least at the moment. There is a mailing list for both the OSU SSH Server and FISH. Send a one-line e-mail message to: MXserver@alpha.sggw.waw.pl with the message: SUBSCRIBE VMS-SSH -Ken -- Kenneth H. Fairfield | Internet: Fairfield@SLC.Slac.Stanford.Edu SLAC, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, MS 46 | Voice: 650-926-2924 Menlo Park, CA 94025 | FAX: 650-926-3515 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- These opinions are mine, not SLAC's, Stanford's, nor the DOE's...