Re: how to have AS/400 console at home

[tomh@xxxxxxxxx]

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Depends on how you set up pcAnywhere.  You _could_ tell it to restart the
host PC after an abnormal end of session.

Tom Hightower
Solutions, Inc
http://www.simas.com





"Steve McKay" <Steve.McKay@SouthTrust.com>
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02/26/02 03:51 PM
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Jeffry wrote:
"PC anywhere has a password, your PC has a password and the AS/400 has a
password.
Plus someone has to know the dial-in phone number."

Jeffry -

I pose this scenario in all sincerity as a matter of my own curiousity -

Suppose I'm a bad guy working part-time as the janitor at your company.
One
night I'm cleaning up around your office and I hear your modem negotiating
a connection.  As I stand there, I see you take control of your PC, open a
connection to the AS/400, sign-on and start doing "stuff".  Being an
educated bad guy (whose probation terms say that I can't touch a computer
-
that's why I'm your janitor), I realize that there are many files on this
AS/400 that I would like to have copies of or make changes to  - and I've
got an "already signed-on" connection.

Now the question -

If I pull the phone cable out of the PC modem on your desk, can I take
over
the "already signed-on" session and have my way with your AS/400??

(I don't know the answer but I would guess "yes").

Thanks,

Steve

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