Re: Security level

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:26 PM 4/19/97 -0400, Al wrote:
>At 10:38 AM 4/19/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>At 10:20 AM 4/18/97 +0200, Maurice wrote:
>>>We wanna go from security level 30 to 40, any suggestions where we have
>>>to think about. We already have some things to think about, but maybe I
>>>forget some things
>
>>If all your concerned about is the jump
>>to Level 40 you should be tracking *AUTFAIL & *PGMFAIL.  
>
>This is incorrect.  If all you are concerned about is L40, then the only
>thing you need to be concerned about is *PGMFAIL.  *AUTFAIL logs access
>failures and  bad sign-ons.

Al,

I'm sorry, but if you aren't checking *AUTFAIL then you'll never catch the
authority failures that, while logged in QAUDJRN as an AF, are still
permitted to execute under Level 30 (SBMJOB using a JOBD that contains a
USRPRF that the submitter is not authorized to is one example).  Level 30
security permits, but logs as a failure, a number of things that level 40
won't allow.  You need to have both *PGMFAIL and *AUTFAIL on to catch them all.

Topic 2.4.9 - Changing to Security Level 40 - in the OS/400 Security
Reference V3R7 (QBJALC01), covers this topic quite well for those who want
the nitty-gritty details.

HTH,

jte
 
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