Gil, Agreed; this is really stupid - but it has always worked that way.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:48:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >FYI - Slides and a recording of our June 12, 2012 webinar: "IBM Ported > >Tools for z/OS OpenSSH: Key Authentication" is available on our web site: > > > >http://dovetail.com/webinars.html > > > >(this is part 1 of a two part series; part 2 is "Using Key Rings" ) > > > So, reading this thread, I tried on a whim: > > user@HOST: sftp localhost > + sftp localhost > Connecting to localhost... > FOTS1252 The SSH client cannot be run under OMVS. > FOTS0841 Connection closed > > I'm not surprised; I understand it has to do with some colossal stupidity > concerning password masking. *But* I am set up with my public key in > my ~/.ssh directory; I can sftp OK from a ssh session without entering a > password. So, why does ssh refuse to operate from an OMVS session, > before determining that a password needs to be entered? More stupidity? > > OTOH: > > $ echo ssh `hostname` cat /etc/services | batch > job 1379968140.b at Mon Sep 23 14:29:00 2013 > > ... works fine from an OMVS session because the connection is not being > made from OMVS. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
