Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

Just for reference, let me add SLES12 in this discussion too. I recently installed a SLES12 machine and there it should be configured in systemd. In systemd you don’t have the inittab. The user is to be logged on on ttyS0, so you need to ensure serial-getty@ttyS0.service is started during boot.

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

On 16 August 2017 at 00:47, Rick Troth wrote: > > It's arguable that having to enter a password at a "login:" prompt would > actually be /less/ secure. > Indeed. It can be argued, and I did that a lot :-) A lot of the security rituals we follow were created for problems that

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

Greetings Donald, The model that many debian packages has preferred over the years is that of a "rootless" security model. In this configuration you must log in as a user and then "sudo" to root. In order to do this you must be in the sudoers group or be explicitly mentioned in

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

> How/what do I have to configure so logging onto the 3270 console gets me > logged into root in a bash shell automatically? Similar question for > sometimes the system has problems coming up and it's prompting for "Enter > root password or CTL-D to continue". How can that be bypassed so it just

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

Thanks Paul, Our security model does not allow sudo. Instead we use something called pmrun which requires authentication across a network. (Don't get me started on the pitfalls of that) sudo nor pmrun address the issue of the "*Enter root password for maintenance, or CTL-D to continue*" prompt

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

On 08/16/2017 12:04 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > Our security model does not allow sudo. Instead we use something called > pmrun which requires authentication across a network. (Don't get me started > on the pitfalls of that) PBRUN at least fits the model of "don't sign on as root - sign on as

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

Dear Rick, One slight embellishment... On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, Rick Troth wrote: Conflicting requirements between your security people and your business continuity people. Lock them in a room together and let them fight it out. Either sell tickets or televise (pay-per-view :^) Kindest

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

I think that would be a problem. Indeed these solutions will not work when the boot phase is stuck in INITRD. We have had boot problems in the past, either because of an error in /etc/fstab or because of boot disk errors. In those cases we logoff the linux machine and mount the boot disk(s) in

Re: Auto login root on 3270 console ttyS0

Greetings Berry, That is the better way to go! Regards, Flint On Wed, 16 Aug 2017, van Sleeuwen, Berry wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:43:32 + From: "van Sleeuwen, Berry" Reply-To: "linux-390@vm.marist.edu" To:

CPU Use By TWS/d batchman Process

Greetings all, We use Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS/d) on our Linux on z servers. Alas, the batchman process wakes up every 10-15 seconds and uses ~10% CPU on each and every server, day in and day out. Does anyone else use batchman, and do you see the same CPU use? Very best regards, Mark