David Boyes wrote: > 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.
You know, linux can use serial ports as a console device... So why hasn't IBM come up with a virtual serial port type of console system to use instead? Something like having the console on /dev/ttyS0, and that via some z/VM magic, is available on an IP as a port number. Telnet to the port, and Linux's getty takes it from there. Or better yet, through some z/VM magic, the serial ports could be mapped to another Linux host's serial ports, say one set up as a console appliance... Then that appliance could be configured to allow access to them in a variety of ways, whether it be by port numbers, account names, ssh key, whatever. I've been imagining this for a long time now, and just wondered why IBM never did it. *Brandon Darbro ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
