On 4/21/09 5:02 PM, "Rob van der Heij" <[email protected]> wrote:
> We used to be in a similar situation with 2nd level test systems where > I really did not want to take the time to install and configure > RACF/VM, but the code we needed to test was supposed to run on a > system with ESM installed. Adding link passwords etc would be a pain > and made the test less realistic. So I wrote myself a Tiny Security > Manager that took a simple static table of permissions that I needed > to grant during the test. And to keep it simple, this ran in the > RACFVM userid instead of the real full ESM. Obviously it involved a > pipeline connecting to *RPI and a lookup to resolve the access > requests. > > I'm wondering if something like this would be a reasonable option for > people with less requirements than RACF/VM. It could even read the > directory source to get all passwords in, but maybe the separation of > the two is even a good thing. It could free VM development from some > of the dual-path solutions. If it were friday I'd suggest RACF CE :-) Since WinCE is already taken...8-) I'd love something like this. Could I get a copy? It'd be really handy as a start towards doing LDAP or Kerberos integration. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
