On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:16 -0400, Rob Scott wrote: > I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once > wrote a program called "IJKEFT01"
Dave Phillips, Tom Rusnak and I once engaged in that sort of "wheel war" about a million years ago. An example of the sort of thing we'd do: when the other guy logged in, he'd see an annoying message "Hey nerd-boy!" or something like that. After logging in a few times it would become an irritant, and he'd look around to see where it came from and get rid of it. That was the fun part: leaving lots of false leads. Oh look: his logon proc has been changed to one that executes a SEND. He changes his logon proc back to his standard one, logs on again and gets "Hey nerd-boy!" Hrm. Further study of his regular logon proc reveals that it STEPLIBs an unfamiliar library with a dubious copy of IKJEFT01. Remove that library from the logon proc, logon again... and get "Hey nerd-boy!" for his trouble. Dang. Check the logon proc again, and notice that it executes IKJEFTO1 (letter oh). That was sneaky. Fix the logon proc again and re-logon. "Hey nerd-boy!" Dang. Okay, is the version of IKJEFT01 in the link pack same as the real one? I wouldn't have MLPA-ed or MODREP-ed a tainted copy of the TMP... would I? That was well over 20 years ago, back when we worked 16 hour days for the joy of it. These days the auditors and security officers would go berzerk; but at the time *we* were in charge of security, and EDP auditors hadn't yet arrived on the scene. It boiled down to harmless fun: nobody was hurt by it, and we never broke anything (didn't dare!), and we even learned some cool stuff along the way. Growing up is overrated. (BTW creative misuse of the TSO "TERMINAL" and "PROFILE" commands was always good for laughs if you found someone's line-mode TSO session unguarded. Sort of like remapping someone's 3270 emulator today.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
