Re: Who is on V7R6?

Rob Berendt <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 14:03:51 -0400
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Found another video.  This one was by a gent from IBM Labs.  He started out
explaining an IBM Lab product which was supported prior to IBM 7.6.  Since
he has a lot of personal sweat in that he ties up too much time on that.
If you're in a time crunch you could skip to 15:30.  Serious time crunch,
19:30.  Although there are a few gems in the early part.  Yes Duo is
mentioned.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM Rob Berendt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> James,
> I apologize for recommending that video.  Please accept it.
> I'll see if I can find a better one.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM Rob Berendt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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