Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills [ snip ] but what I would REALLY like is what I asked for: some automated way of getting a user here signed on automatically there. It looks like PassTicket will do exactly that but I am a little

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On 1/5/2006 12:30 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Thanks. Let me echo Bob Lester's request for more pointers if possible and ALSO ask: I ran across the facility called PassTicket. Wouldn't this do the job? The job being letting a program running for user XYZ log on to FTP on a different machine using

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On 1/5/2006 9:57 AM, Lester, Bob wrote: This does sound a lot better that the .netrc approach (which we've been using). Can you point me to the relevent manuals? Redbooks? What level of info do you need? If you're already using digital certificates then you have some basic info and

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Lester, Bob
| -Original Message- | From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Behalf Of Walt Farrell | Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:47 AM | To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU | Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation | | | On 1/5/2006 9:57 AM, Lester, Bob wrote

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On 1/6/2006 9:47 AM, Lester, Bob wrote: I've got ported tools installed in my test LPAR (V1R4), and can do SSL over TN3270 (Extra emulator) so I think I've got the basics. I'm more interested in securing FTP via SSL/TLS. SCP would also seem to be an option for transferring files.

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Charles Mills
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation On 1/5/2006 12:30 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Thanks. Let me echo Bob Lester's request for more pointers

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Barry Schwarz
. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Saccomanno Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation Charles, I am curious what security disaster exists with each of the users

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do. I want to have a program ABC running in a normal batch job that

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FTP userid propagation I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do. I want to have a program ABC running

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Walt Farrell
On 1/4/2006 5:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do. I want to have a program ABC running in a normal batch job that might be submitted by any of a large number of TSO users

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Lester, Bob
Walt Farrell said: | | The z/OS FTP server and client both support authentication | via digital | certificates (client authentication functions of SSL or | TLS). I suggest | you use that approach. | | Walt Farrell, CISSP | z/OS Security Design, IBM | Hi

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Charles Mills
passwords and clocks)? Any gotchas with PassTicket? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation On 1/4/2006 5:43 PM

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Charles Mills
PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation What is the problem with a userid.NETRC with a UACC of NONE [and maybe an additional PE ID(*) ACC(NONE)]? Except for someone with OPERATIONS, everyone but the user should be locked out. Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Greg Saccomanno
, 2006 12:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation What is the problem with a userid.NETRC with a UACC of NONE [and maybe an additional PE ID(*) ACC(NONE)]? Except for someone with OPERATIONS, everyone but the user should be locked out. I don't think NETRC does

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Charles Mills
like to understand the possible applicability of SSL/TLS. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Saccomanno Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP userid propagation Charles, I

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-05 Thread Greg Saccomanno
Charles, Thank you for your reply. It sounds like the individual NETRC files may not really be a security disaster but more of a maintenance disaster. I would agree, it is very inconvenient to require each user to update the NETRC file each time the password(s) on the remote system(s) change.

FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do. I want to have a program ABC running in a normal batch job that might be submitted by any of a large number of TSO users invoke FTP and have it log on to a remote

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread Hal Merritt
. HTH and good luck. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FTP userid propagation I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
: FTP userid propagation IMHO, a flaw in your thinking is your wanting to use someone else's ID for some security related activity. Have the users stow their data in staging files. Upon some event (timer, file creation, etc) a production job (the FTP) kicks off and does the transfer under its

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-04 Thread tony babonas
] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FTP userid propagation I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do. I want to have a program ABC running