Tim Manns wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>Does anyone know if there is an ssh client available on the HP3000?  I
>need to connect from the 3000 to another box via ssh.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Tim Manns
>Overton's, Inc.
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I have parts of the SSH suite working, but not ssh as an interactive
command interface.  I use SFTP (FTP over SSH) to send files to clients.

SSH works as a pass-through for SFTP (and presumably for SCP, but I
haven't tried it).
(Caveat: The one time I tried to send a really large file, sftp crapped
out at around 9MB.  I haven't had any problems on smaller files, though.)

It doesn't work as an interactive command process because it tries to
use non-blocking I/O and select() on the terminal, which doesn't work on
MPE.  Theoretically one could write a front end to do the terminal I/O
and pass through to SSH as commands.

The sftp program just does regular reads on the terminal, so it works fine.

SSH might work as a batch process, though, if  you just want to send
command unconditionally.

See http://invent3k.external.hp.com/~KEN.HIRSCH/opensshnotes.html
There is one bug fix in the mpe-full that is not in the mpe-patch,
because I haven't had time to prepare a patch.

Note: ssh/sftp will ask for passwords and confirmations by opening
/dev/tty.  Make sure that the user running ssh has TD and RD access to
/dev and R,W access to /dev/tty
from shell
chmod a+rx /dev
chmod a+rw /dev/tty

Ken Hirsch

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