On Wednesday, 01/28/2009 at 01:12 EST, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" <terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov> wrote:
> Currently we are using LDAP on our z/Linux Red Hat 4.6 which is running on a > z/VM 5.3 system to do our authentication. One of our z/OS folks said they saw > somewhere that under z/VM 5.4 that you could no longer use LDAP on z/Linux to > authenticate, that it would need to be done at the z/VM level. Is this true? I'll confirm what others have told you: Linux (or anyone else) can use LDAP server on z/VM to perform authentication, whether z/VM 5.3 or 5.4. The primary difference in z/VM 5.4 is that it generates and LDAP change log entry if you change your RACF password *on the VM system*. And that's only important if you have a product like IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator that propagates password changes to your other ids on other platforms. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
