>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 3:28 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] , Jerry Whitteridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our UNIX folks are used to accessing a console server and doing the > authentication there before accessing the Linux console. They are asking > what we can do to emulate that type of configuration while running under > z/VM, especially as there then becomes 1 additional place for > Userid's/Passwords to be maintained (z/VM RACF). Currently root console > access is via 3270 emulator to VM and using logonby to the particular > server. > > I'd really like to be able to allow the Operators/Support/Engineers on > the Unix side not have to learn the 3270/EBCDIC/Mainframe world, just to > get root access to change the init level or fix a broken server. > We recognize that eventually both teams will need knowledge of the other > team, but the learning curve is steep right now and we are trying to > minimize the differences from what they are used to running.
Jerry, I'm confused. You say they want to access a console server before accessing the Linux console. How is that conceptually any different from signing on via logonby with a 3270 emulator? I can understand the desire to lower the slope of the learning curve, but is just logging on all that hard for them? Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
