On Wednesday, 09/27/2006 at 12:48 AST, "Morris, Kevin J. (LNG-DAY)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a security concern with the fact that when a zLinux user logs on from > the zVM Guest Console, the password is made available to anyone watching over > the person's shoulder as they type it in and is recorded in the spooled
> console log. [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? Yes, the function is there in the underlying z/VM device support (3215 opcode 0x0E), but the con3215 driver in Linux doesn't appear to issue it. I imagine there would have to be termios (?) and ioctl() changes to the driver of some sort to support some type of NOECHO specification. 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
