I think it goes more to separating production from installation/maintenance. It the volsers are different, changing something on the system must be deliberate. Accidental update is very difficult. Alan is big on data integrity, well ... as big as he can be.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Download Vm Tape > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: > > > > > I don't recommend going into production with any system that has > > default dasd labels or passwords. But that's just me..... > > Passwords I can see. > > But changing DASD labels? How come? If it's > security-through- obscurity, then it's not very obscure, > since it's pretty easy to figure out where the res volume > actually is....so there must be some other reason. What is it? > > Adam >
