DECNet, was: Re: Viewing SSH users on VMS

On 2024-08-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:17:00 -0400, bill wrote:
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On 8/1/2024 9:33 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

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On 8/1/2024 8:15 AM, bill wrote:

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Could that be that VMS either does or intended SSH to be usable over
DECNET where there would not have been an IP address?

  No.

 
OK.  I guess it was just wishful thinking.  :-)

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What kind of person wishes they could use DECnet? ;)

Don't ask Lawrence. :-) There are way too many people around here
who seem to think it's still OK to use DECnet these days...

I don't know if you saw the postings, but I actually found some
dodgy stuff in DECnet Phase IV a couple of years ago. Things that
were not immediately obviously exploitable, but stuff that still
should not be there, such as a fully-privileged EVL or the ability
to crash EVL remotely using a malformed packet.

I wonder if VSI ever got around to fixing the list of DECnet Phase IV
issues I sent them. I am assuming not because I never heard anything
back from them to say they had fixed them.

Simon.

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