A protected ID cannot be logged onto by anyone. It eliminates exposure, not increase it.
-----Original Message----- From: Carlos Cordero Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Passw protection out RACF rules with z/OS resources for userid. Yeah! the application really needs a password (because many people who improperly attempt to use it knows the userid, so would be access with no restrictions and that is a very dangerous situation) , PROTECTED attribute had been discarded for this purpose. > To: [email protected] > > Does the application really need a password? Could you make the USERID > protected and thereby eliminate any possibility of it being revoked? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carlos Cordero > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Passw protection out RACF rules with z/OS resources for userid. > > Somebody knows if there is an alternate way to proctect a password of a > userid, this means that the userId is for a GroupWise application; but as > always happen, this user sometimes is used to try to signin to the platform > (this "must be" not allowed by "policies") due to the reason that is the > userid of the product. > > Actually this user has the RACF Pass-Interval N/A but you agree that if > anybody knows this user and try to use to signin on the application after 3 > attempts must be revoked; this represents a big problem because many services > and applications uses this userid to interact with GroupWise application. > > I´ve thinking in the properly options of z/OS to search for a schema that > allows to protect the userid and the password DO NOT be ruled by a attempts > policie (Global options, APFs, etc); in few words, if anybody try to use this > user, after many attepmts the userid do not get a revoked status, it is this > possible? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Live Search premia tus búsquedas, llévate hasta ¡Un Auto! http://www.ganabuscando.com/Default.aspx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
