On Friday, 02/10/2006 at 04:07 CET, Simon Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, to avoid the unwanted VSWITCH security, I have to license, learn, activate > and configure RACF or another ESM? > > No Thanks. I don't want a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
LOL. I was assuming you were otherwise running an auditably secure z/VM system. ;-) > I am probably among a tiny minority of customers who rely on the combined > Directory Maintenance / Password Management product known as XEDIT USER DIRECT > :-) I was at CAVMEN recently and discovered that an [alarmingly] large number of the attendees did not use a directory maintenence product (there were about 30 attendees). An ESM does much more than just manage passwords. (And you can run an ESM without having to run a directory management product.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
