This is the reason code documentation -

>bpxmtext 744C7246
TCPIP 
JRPortAccessAuth: User does not have authority to access this port.

Action: Specify a valid port.

The first thing that I would check would be the TCPIP.PROFILE PORT statement to 
see if there is a jobname based reservation for port 22.

See our "IBM z/OS OpenSSH Quick Install Guide" section 1.11 here:
https://coztoolkit.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/pto-inst-basic.html#pto-inst-tcpip


Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://coztoolkit.com

On Fri, May 26, 2023, at 8:09 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> Can you change the port from 22 to something over 1023 for a quick test?
> 
> On 5/26/2023 6:01 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> > This may be way off so ignore if it sounds crazy...
> > Here's a snip of some old server code I wrote in C for Linux:
> > 
> >    client_sockin.sin_port = htons(port);
> >    rc = bind(local_socket,(struct sockaddr 
> > *)&client_sockin,sizeof(client_sockin));
> >    if (rc != 0) log_msg(0,LM_EXIT,12,"Cannot bind to port %d 
> > rc=%d",port,rc);
> > 
> > When I run that code (on Linux) and tell it to listen on port 12345 it 
> > works just fine.  When I specify something under 1024, it fails with the 
> > "Cannot bind..." message.
> > 
> > However if I specify a port less than 1024 and run it under root uid=0, 
> > it works fine.  In other words, in Linux (and I think the mainframe USS 
> > too) you're not allowed to listen on a port less than 1024 unless you're 
> > root.
> > 
> > But you already checked that the task is running under uid=0, so that's 
> > why I'm confused.  However, the message indicated "Bind" so I don't 
> > think it has anything to do with certificates.  I'm pretty sure any TLS 
> > and cert negotiation comes after the bind() in a server program.
> > 
> > On 5/26/2023 4:48 PM, Wendell Lovewell wrote:
> >> I've done something wrong that I can't identify, and now SSHD 
> >> terminates immediately after starting.
> >>
> >> I'm not getting anything helpful on the console or in the joblog.  But 
> >> I am getting these msgs in syslog:
> >>
> >> OMVSKERN SSHD3    sshd[67174408]: error: FOTS1442 Bind to port 22 on 
> >> :: failed: EDC5111I Permission denied. (errno2=0x744C7246).
> >> OMVSKERN SSHD3    sshd[67174408]: error: FOTS1442 Bind to port 22 on 
> >> 0.0.0.0 failed: EDC5111I Permission denied. (errno2=0x744C7246).
> >> OMVSKERN SSHD3    sshd[67174408]: fatal: FOTS1464 Cannot bind any 
> >> address.
> >>
> >> I've looked up the 7246 code:
> >> JRPORTACCESSAUTH     EQU 29254        * User does not have authority 
> >> to access this port.
> >>
> >> OMVSKERN's is UID(0).  Has ALTER access to BPX.DAEMON.  Port 22 is not 
> >> in use, per D TCPIP,,N,SOCKETS
> >>
> >> None of the files in /etc/ssh had changed for 4 years, so I don't 
> >> think it's there.  (I did set LogLevel to DEBUG3, which didn't help any.)
> >>
> >> The only things I can think of that I might have messed up something 
> >> with keys.  I did try some weeks ago to set up a certificate to bypass 
> >> entering my password when using "ssh user@zos" and didn't get that to 
> >> work.   And I did install a new CERTAUTH this week for the new IBM 
> >> service requirement ("DigiCert Global Root G2"), 'tho I can't imagine 
> >> that would matter.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions would really be appreciated...I'm not much good with 
> >> entering USS commands via a 3270 screen.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Wendell
> >>
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