Re: Subfiles in batch job

Hmmm... it never occurred to me that OVRDSPF DEV(xxx) could be a security
improvement, but I guess it could be :)

Just for kicks one day (this was a year or two ago) I wrote a program that
found all the terminals in the company that weren't signed on.   For each
one that wasn't signed on, it displayed a "fake" sign-on screen, and when
the person typed their user-id and password into the screen, it simply
sent me a message with their userid and password.

So, in a way this is also a big security hole.   A programmer with
somewhat limited access to the system could create a program that 
could (potentially) give him the userid/password of someone with *ALLOBJ
authority.

Fun, eh?


On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Jim Langston wrote:

> Um.. uhh.. wow.  This is intriguing.  Tell me this then...
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to take a dumb tube and stick it out in an area
> and not sign it on.  Then have an RPG program that had the job do an
> Override to this display file write to the screen without waiting for
> a response.  All this going on in a never ending batch job.  So now I
> have a green screen slide show going on to a device that is not really
> secure, but it's not signed onto the system anyway, so no body can get
> access that way?
> 
> Or even better yet, have it wait for a response now and then.  Or allow for
> input into the display file.  Then the program could change what it shows
> or whatever depending on what the person enters.  There is absolutely no way
> the person can get into the system since it's not signed on.  There is no
> interactive session waiting to get a command line too.
> 
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Peter Connell wrote:
> > 
> > Dan,
> > It just has to be sitting there with the signon display up so that it's not
> > allocated. The issue here is that it must always be available for the batch
> > job. However, the batch pgm still waits for a response when you do an EXFMT
> > so you have to go to the device to press ENTER when the display format
> > magically appears on the device without anyone having signed on.
> > 
> > Cheers, Peter

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