Re: Secure Shell on the 400

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

One of the major reasons I'd like SSH on my AS/400 is *because* I've got
BSD and Linux machines on my LAN.

SSH would give me a simple interface to executing commands on those boxes
without the security flaws of rexec/runrmtcmd/telnet and without having to
hard code passwords...

In fact, eliminating the unencrypted telnet sessions was the major reason
that I wrote SSL support for the Linux 5250 client.  :)   I'd love to turn
telnet off completely on all of my FreeBSD boxes, and only allow SSH.


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, James Rich wrote:
>
> While ssh on os/400 would be interesting (as would X11 on os/400) I wonder
> if trying to get ssh to run on it would be any
> better/easier/cheaper/faster/safer than using your favorite *BSD or linux
> installation.  You may already have a spare box laying around which means
> you could implement this for $0.  A heckuva lot easier to maintain since
> there are already companies doing this for you.  Security updates to ssh
> would be no problem to install.  Lots of other good reasons to make things
> easy on yourself.
>
> I guess I'm thinking this, "Use the right system for the right job."  Most
> things networked started out unix, and unix is dang good at it.  OS/400 is
> dang good at database and business stuff.  Windows is dang good at, um,
> I'll think of something...
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>