On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:39:00 +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote:

>> How do I prevent my users' (whom I must give OMVS segments so they
>> can use FTP) using UNIX services?
>
>By what means? If you do not want them to be able to login into a shell, set 
>the PROGRAM field in the OMVS segment to '/bin/true', or some such. If the 
>users need to be able to use FTP and are also in need of login to TSO, you're 
>out of luck, I guess.
> 
"/bin/false"  feels more the proper spirit.  Our shop uses something for
the default user similar to "/bin/OMVS-access-denied", which doesn't
exist, but appears in (some) error messages.

Regardless, they can circumvent much by Assembler BPX1* calls, by
Rexx "address SYSCALL 'spawn'" or by BPXBATCH PARM='PGM ...'.

-- gil

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