On Mon, 4 May 2020 15:31:52 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:

>On Mon, 4 May 2020 19:14:31 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>
>>What I would love to see is some sort of "single signon" option, where a user 
>>would only need 
>>to sign on to their personal workstation and not need to explicitly sign on 
>>to z/OS at all.
>
>IMO, this is a bad idea unless you can count on everyone's workstation being 
>at least as secure 
>as z/OS is. All you need is one user who gets their PC hacked and the hacker 
>has access to z/OS, 
>with whatever authority that user has.
> 
But the user will keep credentials on a desktop system (I've done so with ssh)
or on a Post-It on the terminal screen, etc.

Multi-factor?

Real-time facial recognition with challenge-response?  Remember, Watson
won at Jeopardy, and could probably beat captchas.

-- gil

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