John,

I guess some places do not have a need or interest in RACF violations which I 
don't understand, maybe I'm too old cool system programming

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
understand. - Chinese Proverb


On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:49 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:

> When we do the SMF processing, we use create the IRRADU00 output. We use
> Easytrieve Plus to read that to create report. We don't do much reporting.
> Nobody really cares anymore. I also download the data to my Linux desktop
> and compress it. I do ad-hoc reports from that. I also upload the
> compressed data back to a tape resident dataset, for backup.
> On Sep 23, 2012 11:41 AM, "Scott Ford" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> John,
>> 
>> How do you track RACF violations and report on them ?
>> 
>> Scott ford
>> www.identityforge.com
>> 
>> Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll
>> understand. - Chinese Proverb
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:38 PM, John McKown <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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 Superseded all ICH408I messages from SYSLOG which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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>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> 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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