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From: bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Viewing SSH users on VMS
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 08:15:14 -0400
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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?

bill