actually there isn't any problem . I wanted to know a user password instead of changing it and I remembered that in my previously shop this was a something I was doing regularly . So I just started interesting in how this was available to me in the past and if it still available to me in RACF . Security is always interesting for me.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matan, > > Listing the password is not possible, as you already know. You don't need > to > know the user's password in order to use his access rights (if you are > authorised to do so). RACF let you use other user's authority using the > user.submit profile under the surrogat class. This function is also > available under TSS. > > Tell us what is the problem you are trying to solve by knowing the user's > password. > > ITschak > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Staller, Allan <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Short answer: NOT POSSIBLE. > > > > The provided password is encrypted via a 1-way algorithm. There is no > > way to decode this value that I know of. > > I am sure Walt Farrell will chime in shortly if I am incorrect. > > > > <snip> > > Is somebody familiar with a method to get a user password when using > > RACF ? > > </snip> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- best regards, matan cohen MF System Administrator. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
