> There are tools to enforce user authentication. How is that relevant to making selected files available to the general public? You can't authenticate someone you've never heard of.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 5:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:41:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What if you have a business need to make files available to the general >public? Do you really believe that the web infrastructure is any more secure >than FTP, or even as secure? > There are tools to enforce user authentication. E-Commerce relies on these. Of course, they are only secure as the care taken in deployment. RACF profiles can help enormously (UACC=READ for HTTPD/FTPD). Does CGIWrap help? http://secure-web.cisco.com/1_X3m_rKmNkg9Z_swcraQ6GVLfsGW2xWgDRf2MYlBQZpEUAWG1qOZLDLzI2dI7swz32GFDWl7BOgRcb3Qwc3_7cvPV2b3Bf833bujON9NDtdOXr8FWdLBvn3ubxNl8u8fF7UOGjuGMLyZ5_wDrt_Uep2wnYTZi2YO8LzTc_S8up228Dr7htVDKwQWPKyEMRKQeE8JINJoPCMh5G6w_YP2MnMlZ1MkbzOC9eKah9gm19cxWZOV4O6Is-YvDfubffvEibizdJM_KuyOzZWcASigYhHOtQKUeBgF_fqT9xyRtM-Ly51WV9U1sC7u3akrRB9_hDtXugxWYe4k6ZVwlNvxNfGAlH_g0yvDUj8oDjWbV3u2Rxn14yxzZbU2rNQfaOA3ZLkIjNSS6RglRv0gBqXdWpMdnxPY3ZAxBp7rA5ybrzbamWMW9Idfsfcn3QFreyV4/http%3A%2F%2Fcgiwrap.sourceforge.net%2Fintro.html -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
