On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chan Kok Leong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I am talking about the MAINT profile in USER DIRECT. > I help to maintain a test system when users are free to edit that file > so that they can create their own guests to work with. > A thought came to me on how to recover the system if someone change the > password for the MAINT user and then somehow forgets it. > In the linux world, there are ways to reset the root password, you know > for times when the sysadmin forgets his password. > Is there something similar for z/VM?
You're getting yourself in a rather ugly situation with risking to lose the system. People who are free to tamper with the directory could break your system (by accident or not) in many different ways. The password is probably the least of your concerns. If you really want to delegate some of the sysadmin work, use DIRMAINT But if someone just modified the password and did not tell you, the approach would depend on whether you still have a slightly privileged user that you can use. There's ways to temporarily set another password (to allow logon and look). Maybe you should arrange OPERATOR to be able to do so. Takes a small program and proper CP privileges. Or you may have a user able to read the MAINT 2CC disk that has the source (if it still is there). It really depends on what is still accessible. By all means, try to keep a fairly recent copy of the source directory somewhere so you can recover from damage that happened. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
