Your id need not be logged on. You can logon to more than one id using logonby. When I am testing tools for our TPF testers, I frequently have up to 6 concurrent ids that I have logged on via logonby.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry > R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:58 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: LOGONBY > > Hi > > One last thing on this. Am I logged on with my user id and > password then from there logonby to another machine such as > MAINT? Or do I just logon to MAINT using LOGONBY with my > personal user id's password? > > Thank You, > > Terry Martin > Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems > - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 > 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:51 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: LOGONBY > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:35 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L > <Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Be careful about what "*no* password" means. Rob is talking about > RACF. > > The directory allows a password of NOPASS, which might seem > to be the > > obvious thing if you don't read the manual. NOPASS actually allows > > anyone to log on without specifying a password. If using > VM:Secure or > > no ESM, specify a password of LBYONLY. > > Thank you :-) I was indeed thinking RACF only. A lot of > this becomes a moot point when you have passwords in plain text... > > Rob >