Re: Bypass Signon for RF Scanners

["Joe D" <nike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Bypass Signon for RF Scanners


> Both of my answers do require programming -- so my apologies if you're not
> a programmer.  Personally, I'm a programmer, so that's just the way I
> think of things :)  I've written both solutions at various times in my
> life -- if I had to choose one or the other, I'd go the "ACQUIRE" route...
> it's just a little less messy.
>
> HTH
Thanks for the replies....

What is killing me is that I seem to remember we handled this with no 
special coding.  A devd or jobd that automatically logged in...  Something 
to do with why we needed a special subsystem and the workstation entries.

Maybe it is just old age setting in.

I know I can override the signon screen at the subsystem level.  Maybe in 
the DDS I could provide the default user/pass for this limited account. 
Would no bypass signon completely, but would reduce it to a press of the 
Enter.

The Acquire scenario sounds very interesting, but I have not done something 
that generically grabs sessions.  We have automated some of our UPS billing 
by using a dummy telnet session to simulate user keystrokes....

If we were to write a generic program to grab these sessions, how would we 
know one was sitting on a signon screen?

Sorry for so many questions.  I feel a bit obsessed now -- need an answer :)

Thanks!
JD