Re: Why would SSHD not start, even if QUSRWRK is active?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've always had bad luck with STRTCPSVR for *SSHD... I use this:

QSH CMD('/QOpenSys/usr/sbin/sshd')

So far it's worked flawless for 3 or 4 clients that I need to start it up
for.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 4:29 PM Rob W via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> John,
>
> There may be a problem with the sshd configuration file.
>
> If you have *ALLOBJ authority, you can try to start the SSHD server
> manually
> from QP2TERM.
>
> In QP2TERM enter
> /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd
>
> Messages similar to the following will be displayed in QP2TERm If any
> configuration errors were found.
> /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad
> configuration options
> /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/sshd_config line 113: Bad SSH2
> cipher spec
>
> You can still run the /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd in QP2TERM even if you do not
> have
> *ALLOBJ and it will still tell you if it any errors were found, but the
> actual starting of the SSH daemon will fail for authority reasons.
>
> If you're running at 7.2 or above the configuration file is located at
> /QOpenSys/QIBM/UserData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/sshd_config
>
> IBM also places a backup copy of the configuration file at the following
> path.
> /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc_template/sshd_config
>
> If there are configuration errors, you could copy the backup copy to the
> base copy.
>
> Make sure to make a backup copy of the config file before making any
> changes
> and only modify the configuration if you're an administration responsible
> for the ssh configuration.
>
> Rob W
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John
> Yeung
> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 9:18 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Why would SSHD not start, even if QUSRWRK is active?
>
> A long time ago, it was my experience that failure to start SSHD was
> usually
> due to QUSRWRK not being started.
>
> Today, after an IPL over the weekend, I tried
>
>   STRTCPSVR *SSHD
>
> and got the usual
>
>   SSHD server starting.
>
> message, but the server never came up. QUSRWRK is up and running, and in
> fact other jobs are successfully running on that subsystem, but no
> QP0ZSPWP,
> and nothing showing function PGM-sshd.
>
> What else can I check?
>
> John Y.
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