In a recent note, Edward Jaffe said: > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 08:11:27 -0700 > > The logon screen was the "side" (i.e., not "official" TSO development) > project of one one developer whose (unwelcome) contribution was hastily > adopted by management at a time when the "flavor of the month" was to > ensure that no passwords appeared at the terminal. > How did that help?
The earliest I recall, perhaps MVS 3.8, logon was linemode, and the user could enter "username/password". And one colleague defiantly set his password to "/" to minimize hand motion. And allowed others to see it. Subsequently, TSO ceased accepting passwords on the unmasked logon line (and my colleague complained) and, still in linemode, presented a nondisplayed field for the password, even as linemode applications such as FTP do today. Wasn't that sufficient? Later (TSO/E?) the full-screen logon appeared. But how did that mask the password any better than previously? It did save one transaction (or not? I now must clear the screen after the logon panel; I don't remember doing that before). The full-screen logon does remember my initial command. I don't know whether linemode logon did that for me. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
