Thanks to all who replied with suggestions.
Yes, it's not about being cool, or going boldly where others fear to tread,
but rather making people less cranky about password maintenance.
In my environment, all zLinux users are also VM/CMS users. They have a
userid on VM and the same userid on
Before I go off to investigate what it would take to write one... is
there
already a PAM module for zLinux that will accept a userid/password and
authenticate it against the VM host it's running on?
I have one mostly complete, but it's not free.
Without that, you can probably do it with the
On Wednesday, 02/16/2011 at 03:54 EST, Donald Russell
russell@gmail.com wrote:
Before I go off to investigate what it would take to write one... is
there
already a PAM module for zLinux that will accept a userid/password and
authenticate it against the VM host it's running on?
For
Yes, using the LDAP support in z/VM, PAM can authenticate against RACF.
See various articles in zJournal and doc in the z/VM library and Redbooks.
On 02/16/2011 02:53 PM, Donald Russell wrote:
Before I go off to investigate what it would take to write one... is there
already a PAM module for
Hi, Donald.
Yeah, it's a cool thing to do, alright. Go with the LDAP-RACF approach
Alan and others have mentioned already, if you're already running RACF.
If you're not, there are other ways to get PAM on zLinux to authenticate
against CMS user ids, and passwords. I can send you more information
Well, being devil's advocate here...
Why is it a cool thing to do? Doesn't it make more sense to use whatever every
other Linux/unix box in your shop is using?All those other people may get
cranky if you make them get a CMS id to login to Linux or to use a web app.
Unless you have no Linux
On Wednesday, 02/16/2011 at 04:53 EST, Marcy Cortes
marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote:
Why is it a cool thing to do? Doesn't it make more sense to use
whatever every
other Linux/unix box in your shop is using?All those other people
may get
cranky if you make them get a CMS id to login
