I have seen on a couple of occasions this year, what appears to be a password keyed in the user name field...
The ICH408I USER(password? ) message is in the log. So it is not an MVS problem, but a user generated problem.... Regards, Silvio Camplani zSeries Sr. Analyst, Systems Support Bombardier On Tue, Sep 18, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: > If passwords were ever in the SYSLOG, I don't think it has been a problem > in the last 2 decades. I don't ever recall seeing them. I'm sure that > z/OS, and OS/390 have never put passwords in SYSLOG. If you've seen > passwords in SYSLOG, it must have been a long time ago, or put their by a > user exit. > > -- > Eric Bielefeld > Systems Programmer > > ---- Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > > John: > > > > Over the years auditors at my company have come up with a similar > > question. While I give it to the auditors I do no give it out to say > > the average person. > > 1. I have seen passwords on the syslog. > > 2. I have also seen arguments that have come up in meetings over how > > operators replied to messages and other operator actions. They > > (operators) do not want to be second guessed on day to day jobs (they > > get enough if that from their boss and me). Any information that is > > pertinent to the job is in their joblog end of story. > > > > Ed > > > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:30 AM, McKown, John wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
