On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:15:06 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >Agreed - it would be nice if TSO OMVS had a solution for masking passwords, >but it doesn't. > Long ago, before SSL was available, I went to PMR with this. I even used the magic word, "security". I reported it as a problem with "stty -echo", and said that I thought the root cause was in tcsetattr(). Guess what? IBM patched "stty -echo" and left tcsetattr() broken. They may have made a collateral comment that I should be using getpass() instead.
>In the mean time, it is silly to completely disable the ssh client under >TSO OMVS - it would suffice to simply disable "password-interactive" mode >under the Ported Tools ssh client if a tty that doesn't support masking is >detected. > agreed. >BTW - I always use an ssh telnet shell under z/OS rather than TSO OMVS, >which is brain-dead by comparison ( IMO :-) > What!? Have you no respect for the many decades of rich tradition behind the 3270? And scant appreciation for ISPF and OEDIT and OBROWSE? What do your peers think? Can you not at least use an editor that emulates the behavior of ISPF? You seem to be as much a masochist as John M. VM VTAM allows a session to wait concurrently for terminal output and for keyboard input. Porting that technology to TSO OMVS would eliminate the need for the infuriating "RUNNING/INPUT" toggle and elevate TSO OMVS from brain-dead to merely comatose. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
