Re: iSeries FTP security

On 18 May 2005 15:20:35 -0000, shalom@xxxxxxxxxx <shalom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Scott,
> These are vulnerabilities of a particular implementation of FTP,
> in a specific operating system - OS400.
> 
> The problem is not with the implementation of FTP, but with the false sense 
> of security we had when we installed an FTP exit program and thought that
> it works in a specific way, when in fact it provides a loophole for
> unplanned access.
> 
> The same applies to the iSeries implementation of LDAP.
> A limited iSeries user cannot run WRKUSRPRF,
> but the LDAP query provides full information about a group of local users,
> including all of the profile attributes.
> 
> This feature is not found in other LDAP products.
> Netscape LDAP does not disclose the list of local users that
> are defined on the server it runs on.
> 
> I agree that the LDAP issue is not a major problem,
> but it was never presented as such.
> 

a great result from all of this would be IBM working to improve and
correct its software products.

Shalom, could you focus on RPG and ILE next, causing IBM to enhance
those products so that the iSeries can compete with .NET :)

-Steve