RE: security AGGRAVATION: renaming *devd

["Ed Fishel" <edfishel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

I tried to check the archives to read the full text of your first post on
this subject but cannot get to them. Hopefully this response will be
helpful.

Think of *IOSYSCFG as a privilege. It is not intended to give anyone
authority to any objects. A user with just *IOSYSCFG special authority
still needs authority to the various command and API interfaces to create,
change, or delete a device description. If you look at Appendix D of the
Security Reference Manual you will see that in addition to needing
*IOSYSCFG, a user must have *CHANGE plus *OBJMGT authority to change a
device description. Also to rename any object a user needs *OBJMGT
authority to the object.

This brings me to the next point. If your device description objects are
created with public *CHANGE authority then the public should not be able to
rename or change those objects because the public does not have *OBJMGT
authority.


Ed Fishel,
edfishel@US.IBM.COM


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