Re: VS Code

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Why is everyone who has responded to this seemly taking wild guesses as 
to what the problem is?  So you have this error message:

fatal: QsyGetProfileHandleNoPwd qsshd CPF22E3 [preauth] from QSECOFR

Firstly, look up RNF22E3...   DSPMSGD can be used to see what it means.  
This would literally take you one second to do.

Secondly, you can look at the docs for QsyGetProfileHandleNoPwd API.

So far I've noted these wild guesses:

1) SSH is requiring a key rather than a password.  HUH?  Why on earth 
would that return a message from QsyGetProfileHandleNoPwd -- this 
routine has nothing whatsoever to do with SSH keys.  So this guess 
doesn't fit the symptoms.

2) 10 character passwords.  Errr... forgive me, but... why would the "No 
password" version of the API care how many characters are in a password?

Look up CPF22E3, see what it means, look around at the relevant user 
profiles on your system... an educated guess based on knowledge is 
almost always more useful than taking wild guesses at random!


On 8/30/23 2:14 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> Only if the SSH Server is configured to need keys and not allow user/password.
>
> Are you possibly running into a 10 char password issue ?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
> message: 5
> date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:48:20 +0000
> from: Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: VS Code
>
> I have a vendor trying to connect to our IBM i system (v7r5) with VS Code IDE.  They are connected to our network via VPN and can run 5250 sessions and such.
>
> I started our SSH server, but we are seeing the following error in QSYSOPR messages and our History Log.
>
> sshd[15191]: fatal: QsyGetProfileHandleNoPwd qsshd CPF22E3 [preauth] from QSECOFR
>
> Does this connection require pre-shared keys?
>
> TIA,
> Greg