> Not really, because z/VM doesn't have anything to do with the login > process at that point. I suppose you could put in an RFE to Red Hat to > modify the terminal control code to do what you want. > -snip > Is there a way to let zVM know that this is a password field similar to > when you are logging on to zVM or using the VM-FTP Client?
I'm not sure there's anything they *can* do. The guest doesn't see the input until the attention key gets pressed, so that it really doesn't get control in any useful way. You might be able to do something with a 3270 console, but that's probably unlikely to be useful in a VM environment (spare us VINPUT, please!). It would be a lot easier to configure (and probably more useful to have) a root shell to always be running on the console without a Unix login required. Since you already have a authorization method in place (the VM userid login) that does password suppression correctly, that would be the "right" thing to do -- after all, if you have the VM userid password, you can already do all the harm that a root user can do, and you have secure logging of the fact that the login occurred. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
