On Tuesday, 10/09/2007 at 10:01 EDT, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like it to go a step further, like with some linux installations > that ask for a root password and another userid to be added. I like > having ALL system related userids be AUTOONLY, LBYONLY, NOLOG or have a > randomly generated password. All userids that need to actually need to > be logged onto must have a LOGONBY record authorizing that initial > sysprog userid. After that initial setup, it isn't hard to replace the > passwords for those users that need to logged on. No one ever really > needs the password to those accounts if properly LOGONBY authorized. > That random password could be randomized daily, until you can properly > divide all accounts into the proper AUTOONLY, LBYONLY, NOLOG or personal > password categories.
Understand that if we were to go this way, the Old School "let the customer decide" wouldn't be there. So I would ask that those who would object to such a change to speak up. The only thing that holds the directory in its current state is inertia. With a sufficiently large outside force, its direction can be changed. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
