Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-13 Thread Jim Bohnsack
By no additional charge, I meant that DIRMAINT or any product that would need to do authentication would not have to have a charge for having an ESM do the authentication. Jim Alan Altmark wrote: On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 04:05 EST, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B) There

Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 04:05 EST, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B) There should be no additional charge. Not having to maintain separate authorization paradigms in each product just about has be less expensive for the vendor. Certainly there would be an initial startup cost, but

Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 08:45 EST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was where I was going a few months ago with the idea of integrating RACF into the base VM. Even given the general awfulness of RACF, at that point IBM would have a basic level of function to depend on, and you

Re: DIRMAINT authentication - VM:Secure and VM:Director

2007-12-11 Thread Demeritt, Yvonne
: DIRMAINT authentication John, I agree that security/authentication is pretty much an afterthought in DIRMAINT but I doubt IBM would be interested in a rewrite just because it is a PITA. I am not very familiar with VM-Secure how do they handle security issues? Perhaps if the compitition for buisness

Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 09:28 EST, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you do all think or am I the only one who thinks that this is a problem in DIRMAINT or an opportunity for improvement? To be clear, you're talking about *authorization*, not *authentication*. As of z/VM 5.3, I

Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-11 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Subject: Re: DIRMAINT authentication On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 09:28 EST, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you do all think or am I the only one who thinks that this is a problem in DIRMAINT or an opportunity for improvement? To be clear, you're talking about *authorization

Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-11 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DIRMAINT authentication On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 09:28 EST, Jim Bohnsack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you do all

Re: DIRMAINT authentication

2007-12-11 Thread David Boyes
A) There would be some learning curve involved in implementing it but you would only have to learn the basics of it once. B) There should be no additional charge. Not having to maintain separate authorization paradigms in each product just about has be less expensive for the vendor.