Re: Who is on V7R6?

Rob Berendt <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 13:24:43 -0400
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Be careful of the host table entries trick.  I used to have that working
for bing to route to another search engine.  MS figured out a way to bypass
the host table.

The official documentation is at
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=security-multi-factor-authentication-mfa

This video starts out a little hokey but will be useful
https://learn.common.org/products/isee-integrated-multi-factor-authentication?packages%5B%5D=46368&in_package=46368&sort_by=package_order&ref=package&ref_id=46368
You can set up a free account at COMMON to view this.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/9/26 6:14 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> > James,
> > I know you don't generally subscribe to social media but do you have
> access
> > to LinkedIn?
>
> What do you mean, "Generally"?
>
> I do boards, and I do list-servers. I don't do social media, and I
> routinely install host table entries redirecting those domains to
> 0.0.0.0, in order to make it more difficult for anybody to trick me into
> accessing their sites.
>
> My main beef specific to LinkedIn is their history of mining their new
> subscribers' email address books to find new targets for hard-sell spam.
> That's inexcusable.
>
> Be that as it may, what would be the most helpful would be to find an
> online demonstration and/or tutorial for V7R6's MFA feature. Your own
> comment that it can be used with Duo (was that based on experience?)
> wasn't really any more helpful than the woefully inadequate IBM docs
> I've seen on it.
>
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