[Info-vax] VMS and MFA?

[Chris Townley]

On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 9:20:30 PM UTC+1, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> It is usually considered a good thing security wise to be able
> to actually log who successfully did what and who unsuccessfully
> tried what.
> 
> Unique accounts helps with that.
> 
> It is not even a new thing.
> 
> Arne

We used to cater for that by a secondary login within the application for any update operations. We needed generic account access as the terminals involved were used by 10 or 20 people, and rarely logged out. The application then logged from the secondary authentication.

Worked for us


Chris