Re: Question on QTVDEVICE job entering incorrect password

Hi Paul,

> I am noticing a lot of entries in our audit log with the type of T-PW
> (Invalid password entered), but are generated from the job QTVDEVICE
> user QTCP.


QTVDEVICE is the name of the job where virtual devices are created and set up with the appropriate parameters, to be used in a TN5250 session. It's a component of the IBM Telnet server.

The fact that you're getting invalid password errors implies that someone is sending an invalid password as part of their session setup.

>
> Does anyone know what these entries mean? Typically we have users
> connecting to the iSeries via Rumba.

You see, Rumba has the ability to "auto-sign on". (Or something like that, I don't have a copy of Rumba in front of me at the moment to tell you the precise option name.) The idea is, you configure you type your userid/password in the GUI setup dialog in Rumba, and it sends it to the iSeries as part of the Telnet feature negotiation as the connection is being made. that way (assuming the info is valid) you can skip the signon screen, and go right to your initial menu/program.

If the userid ends up being invalid (as in your case) the default action is for i5/OS to present a sign-on screen for the user to sign in with valid credentials.

So if you have a bad userid and password in a Rumba configuration, I can imagine that you'll keep getting these errors in the audit log, even though everything seems to be working fine.

If it'd help, I can look up the precise Rumba option that you need to set the auto-signon stuff when I get to my office tomorrow (we have Rumba 7.2 or something like that). Just let me know if that info would help...