Jim Harrison wrote:
to click it. Lo and behold, I got the VTAM logon screen for their z/os system! My question is, is this common? I can see doing it via a VPN, but open to the public? Granted, guessing their applids, userIDs &
This could be a huge exposure, or it could be the safest thing in the world, as these things go. I once worked for a company that had open access. They also had an egg-shaped device for each user, clock synchronized to software, that generated a pseudo-random number on demand. That was the password; if you missed the window, you had to wait a few minutes and try again. The logon was handled in a Network Solicitor, and other than requiring occasional recalibration, was reliable. Definitely safer than a static password.
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