Took the easy way out. Superseded all ICH408I messages from SYSLOG which
have USER( at the front of word two. I see no need for them. We use SMF
records for reporting.
On Sep 18, 2012 10:18 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have seen that. And other strange keying errors.  PEBKAC. Now that you
> mention it, I may use a CA-OPS/MVS rule to "blank out" portions of the
> ICH408I messages. Say in the USER(...), GROUP(...) and NAME(...) portions.
> I don't use them anyway. I use the SMF records.
>
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> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:13 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: z/OS SYSLOG - why not let everybody read?
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:21:11 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
> >
> > >Ed Gould wrote:
> > >
> > >>1. I have seen passwords on the syslog.
> > >
> > >Can you show any example(s) of such messages? Of course you can mask
> > out the passwords before posting. ;-)
> > >Was that by design [1] or by operator error? Was that a verbatim copy
> > of some command?
> > >
> > It's easy for a user to tab to the wrong field and inadvertently
> > type a password in the user ID field.  The user may correct the
> > error and continue, not realizing that the password may now
> > appear in SYSLOG.
> >
> > Mistake?  Sure.  Process violation?  Sure.  Security exposure
> > nonetheless.
> >
> > -- gil
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