That should have been old school not cool, sorry

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
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On Sep 23, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 Superseded all ICH408I messages from SYSLOG which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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