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From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@nospam.mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Viewing SSH users on VMS
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 09:04:01 -0500
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On 7/28/24 8:27 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Craig A. Berry <craigberry@nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> I believe they have said (unofficially) they will do that for LLVM and
>> have had good interactions with the upstream developers at conferences
>> and what-not.  I haven't seen statements for other products.  For
>> security-related things like OpenSSL and OpenSSH they do need to be able
>> to incorporate and release updates quickly, which would be a lot easier
>> if they stayed up-to-date and had continuous builds running so
>> everything was already ready-to-go when a critical fix comes along.
> 
> OpenSSH is kind of a special case since it was not too long ago they
> they, with great fanfare, stripped out a lot of code from their
> distribution including the VMS support.

I don't think there was any long-standing VMS support in OpenSSH.  Maybe
you are thinking of LibreSSL, which jettisoned a lot of things,
including anything VMS-specific, when it forked from OpenSSL.