I see. But, if you know one of the old passwords of a user (if you maintain pw history), you can restore to that password ;-)
ITschak On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Matan Cohen <matancohen...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 <imugz...@gmail.com> > 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 <allan.stal...@kbmg.com > > >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 lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
