RE: Signon Panel - How to Prevent Access

Patrick,

But wouldn't that prevent PC5250 sessions, such as mine, from connecting? I
thought that all emulators used Telnet.

I just don't want sessions to autoconfigure, such as the QPADEVxxxx
sessions. I have defined device descriptions for all of our workstations
and can, of course, add new ones if needed.

If I run Telnet (our ip address) from a DOS command prompt, a QPADEV session
starts and allows sign on. That's the kind of thing that I want to prevent.
Our valid sessions are defined to use a specific device id, which I have
created, as I said.

I did have a situation at my previous employer whereby a device description
that I defined as a printer could be changed to a display session. I
reported it to IBM Support who said, Ain't that special?! But working as
designed, and rejected both my PMR and my DCR for that reason.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick Botz
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Signon Panel - How to Prevent Access

Jerry, I just saw this. Based on your question, it sounds like you don't
want any telnet sessions. If that is correct, just don't start telnet. You
can keep telnet from auto starting by changing the autostart telnet
attribute to *no. I believe the cmd is CHGTELA or something close to hat.

Patrick Botz
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pbotz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
507 319 5206

On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:29 PM, "Jerry C. Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have system values set as:

QAUTOCFG = 0

QAUTOVRT = 0

Which, I thought, would prevent a telnet service, such as iSeries
Access or Telnet from a DOS command line, from gaining access to a
System i. That is, no signon panel, no login.



Obviously, that's not true (we're on V5R1). I was just working with a
purchasing guy. He already had iSeries Access installed but no PC5250
session configured. So, without thinking, I started the Create New

Session.

My immediate thought was, as I intimated earlier, "This is going to
blow up." But it didn't. I got one of those generic QPADEVxxxx sessions.



I, also, got the QPADEVxxxx signon when I ran Telnet from a DOS command

box.

Is there any system value or whatever that would prevent access to a
signon panel?



Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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