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Brad, Would it be possible to find out what this persons objection to LODRUN actually is/was and post to the list? That would cut down on the speculation. And if we are missing something, I'd sure like to know what it is. Bob -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad Jensen Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:44 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: CD Burning software? ----- Original Message ----- From: "jt" <jt@ee.net> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:04 PM Subject: RE: CD Burning software? > Chuck, > > Thanks. Uh.. guess it doesn't need to adopt authority to do damage. > > But, as you noted, not likely to be a practical consideration. (I wouldn't > try LODRUN on a CD I got from some neighborhood kid though... LOL...!) > What I'm having a hard time seeing is why Brad's coders would think the > vendor of the /drive/, rather than the /vendor of the CD/, would see some > downside if this functionality was provided. Maybe they just didn't want to > mess with it... My guy has worked with some large shops that are pretty strict on security issues. These are people who would not trust the vendor until the vendor's lodrun cratered their system. They just won't open that hole in the first place. The impression I received from him at the time (this was three years ago, so it is a rather vague impression) was that third party software houses that used lodrun were identifying themselves as either unsophisticated or not-security conscious. (Please don't heap abuse on my head, I'm reporting a shadowy impression of a long-ago event.) I guess the point is that most people are highly security conscious on their AS/400, and they want to restore with the permission levels they choose, not give over the machine to some software from a third party. My other software runs on hundreds and hundreds of AS/400 customer's machines. I've been turned away from sites when I told them we needed THEM to use QSEOCFR authority to create a certain user profile for our software (no the profile does not have QSECOFR authority). . Even now my installers who go on site are not permitted (by us, I mean) to use a user profile with QSECOFR authority. The customer has to do that part. No exceptions. It's too easy for the customer to blame the next thing that goes wrong on their machine, on the last software vendor that had access to it. I want the customer to be confident in their use of our software. And yes, we can modify our CD-burning software to create CDs with LODRUN, I suppose. It's interesting to me the CA didn't mention this, I have to come to the conclusion that they aren't using LODRUN either, at least not on the CDs they make with our AS/400 CD burner. By the way, I am not trying to suggest that those of you who use LODRUN are wrong, I'm just trying to explain our point of view on it, as well as I know it. Brad Jensen _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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