I think what everybody is telling you is let ACF2, RACF, TSS do their job
Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jun 11, 2025, at 18:51, Mike Schwab > <[email protected]> wrote: > A denial of service attack would to to attempt to log on to the ID with the > wrong password, until it is revoked when it reaches the number of invalid > logon attempts. > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM Jack Zukt < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> You already have a few answers. >> I would begin by pointing out that PROTECTED userids were created si that >> you could assign them to started tasks. To me, the biggest drawback of >> associating a password userid to a started task, is the risk of having it >> revoked by inactivity if the number of days between IPLs is greater than >> the inactivy revoke period. >> Regards >> Jack >> >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 20:51 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Everything to lose and nothing to gain. The STCs should run under a >> userid >>> that nobody can log on to and that nobody has proxy authority to. No >>> password to expire. >>> -- >>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >>> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >>> עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי >>> נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf >>> of Roberto Halais <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 9:05 AM >>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >>> Subject: STC Userids >>> External Message: Use Caution >>> I would like some feedback on what would happen if we assign passwords to >>> the stcs in our z/OS environment. >>> At this moment the stcs have no passwords assigned to them. >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
