Re: how to have AS/400 console at home

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> > I use PC Anywhere to dial in to my PC and then start a session on the
>  AS/400.
>
>  So, you have THREE machines.

You have
(1) Home PC which dials into
(2) Work PC which signs onto
(3) AS/400

Now if you can dial into the work PC so can a hacker.
What is the protection?
Perhaps the AS/400 has a password.
Perhaps the Work PC has a password.
Perhaps the Work PC is on a version of Windows where security cannot be
bypassed by an astute Windoze expert.
Depending on how the Home PC is connecting to the Work PC
perhaps a hacker is seeing those passwords being transmitted clear enough.

Or is the home PC to work PC tunneling through a secure encrypted VPN?
Your home PC had better have real good security so that a hacker does not see
how to get into that VPN & simulate being you.

If you want to do any restricted stuff, does this mean that the work PC is
the main console?  If the work PC is connect to ma bell so that the home PC
can dial in, it does not matter how secure or insecure the home PC is, that
work PC is a hacker magnet.  How often do you change its passwords & how many
wrong guesses before it is varied off?

Of course the original question was not how to prevent hackers from trashing
your AS/400 it was how to let anyone including the person asking the
question, do anything they damn well please on the AS/400 without actually
being there ... lots of ways to do that, like leave explosives in computer
room & go home & push the radio control button ... same effect, just more
obvious what you done.  <G>

Perhaps 2 machines work.  Perhaps not.
Get an extremely baby AS/400 at home.
Connect to work AS/400 over the ECS line.
Perhaps there is a protocol there that can be encrypted no matter how brain
dead your local ma bell connection is.
Your extremely baby AS/400 at home might be networked to a home PC inside the
firewall.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)