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> Maybe I want to drop them based on their IP, or time of day, or some other
> consideration, and don't want to give them a chance to play around with my
> signon screen. Looks to me like IBM overlooked something fairly major.

There's always firewalls and/or [the inbuilt] packet filtering....

Locking out based on the time can be handled by the exit point control.  

I'm rather happy with that breakdown, as somebody filtered out by
"structure" (IP address, protocol, destination IP address,
source/destination port, and much more) never gets a chance to login.

Once a user gets a login screen, I would rather have the locked in login to
retrieve and record the user id attempting signon.  Since an exit point can
change the user id of the person signing in, it's nice to have the original
filed away.

Even if they get a login screen, I'm not to sure what they're going to play
around with.  Hide everything but the user id and password and they will
"see" no more than they would when signing on via telnet or Client Access.
Granted that green screen passwords go via plain text, but there's secure
socket layers to handle that as well.

IBM may rarely miss something, but I don't think that's the case here....




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