On Sunday, 09/28/2008 at 12:50 EDT, Leland Lucius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> This would certainly make it easy and we wouldn't have to have any
> "non-standard" scheduled touching of the ID.  I'll have to ponder it a
> little though since we do log onto a guest every so often to get to its
> console.  But, that's so seldom, a call to the security group could
> temporarily add a password.

You don't need to logon to get the console.  From a class C user:
CP SEND CP <linuxuser> CLOSE CONS TO <whomever>

Of course, products like IBM Operations Manager for z/VM can obviate the 
need to manage console logs in this way.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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