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From: "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Viewing SSH users on VMS
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 09:33:57 -0400
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On 8/1/2024 8:15 AM, bill wrote:
> On 7/31/2024 3:40 PM, David Jones wrote:
>> On 7/31/2024 2:36 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 31/07/2024 17:31, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> Interestingly SYS$REM_NODE and SYS$REM_NODE_FULLNAME are both set to the remote IP address, but SYS$REM_ID is set to the local, not the remote username.
>>>
>>
>> Equally interesting: the SSHDxx_BGnnn process that controls the PTY has SYS$REM_NODE/SYS$REM_NODE_FULLNAME
>> set to the actual hostname of the remote host instead of the IP address. SYS$REM_ID is set to SSH$SSH.
>>
> 
> 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.

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		-- Rob