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Re: iSeries and Unix handshaking

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:09 AM, John R. Smith, Jr.
<smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At this point, we are leaning towards REXEC but there are a lot of people
nervous about it (including me) because they have used it and have a fear it
will open the system to renegade commands...you can't always trust your
employees to not use a back door if they find it. :)

The Web services (or RPC) approach isn't (as) vulnerable to this,
because the server controls what functionality is available. That is,
you can set up the server such that it only accepts requests that do
function foo. Any other request is denied or silently ignored.

John Y.

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