Re: sbmjob user(xxxxx)

I think where Jim was going is the SBMJOB command goes into that CLP that adopts authority. This way the job user doesn't have authority on their own to submit jobs with other user's authority. However when that program is called it adopts enough authority to be able to submit the job under another profile. So that CLP is primarily just one command SBMJOB. The input parameters are basically just whatever you need to fill out the SBMJOB such as date ranges or other values.

In theory you could also make it very generic and have the parameter be the entire command to run. But, um WARNING WARNING WARNING that is a massive security hole!! Because now they could run PWRDWNSYS for example or my favorite command GIVBIGRAIS.

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On 12/27/2019 8:49 AM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

jim thank you...

we don't want to necessarily just adopt the authority of another user, we
literally need it to run under the "other" user profile...

the reason for this is we have a pgmA that is a clp that runs an sftp
process.

When pgmA is invoked and ran, we don't know if this particular sftp will be
password or ssh key auth.

But we do know if it will be sshkey or password when we code the sbmjob in
our application.
And if it is ssh key then we want to sbmjob user(sftpuser). (sftpuser is
the sole userprofile for holding all the ssh keys.)

jay


On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 8:43 AM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jay:

I’m not certain what the use case is here, but I’ll bet you don’t really
want to give everyone that authority, or at least based on your note a
limited number.

The best way to accomplish this in my view is with an adopted authority
CLP wrapper.
Take in parms that you need for the job, and craft a SMBJOB command as
needed. Create your own command if it makes sense to do so.

That way you can accomplish your goal and maintain some level of control.
I’ve even seen those programs encode a journal entry to a user journal in
order to memorialize the job for later audit.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Dec 27, 2019, at 7:25 AM, Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

so we have a need to submit a job under another specific user profile.

what is the best/cleanest method for implementing this?

obviously we can just specify the new user on the sbmjob user() parm, but
what about each individual user profile that may do the sbmjob, what is

the

best/cleanest way to maintain those user authorized to the sbmjob user()
user profile?

tia

jay
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