RE: User profile question

It doesn't matter what the password is as long as it's not disabled.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: User profile question
> From: "John Candidi" <jacandidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, January 26, 2006 8:49 am
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> What is the system supplied password for QPGMR. I just changed it but I want
> to change it back after reading some of these e-mails. Will that even affect
> anything?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:16 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: User profile question
> 
> Several of the IBM programs use the IBM profiles to get attributes.
> QUSER, QTCP, QPGMR are a few heavily used by IBM processes.
> Example: when a ftp request received, it first logs on with QTCP
> and then profile-swaps to the user id supplied in the request.
> Disabling these could disable vital parts of your system.
> Maybe someone on the list can point to a table of where these are used.
> jim franz
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Greg Wenzloff" <GWenzloff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:56 AM
> Subject: User profile question
> 
> 
> > Our SOX auditors are hounding me about User Profiles.    I set most of
> > the IBM supplied profiles to Password = *none.   I did not change the
> > Status to *Disabled because I don't know about all of the effects of
> > doing that.
> >
> > The help window says:
> >                       Status - Help
> >
> > Specifies whether the user profile is valid for sign on or
> > for getting a profile handle.
> >
> > The possible values are:
> >  o  *ENABLED: The user profile is valid.
> >  o  *DISABLED: The user profile is not valid.
> >
> > What does "getting a profile handle" mean?    Will a disabled profile
> > prevent programs from running?
> >
> > Greg
> >
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