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  • Subject: RE: "Lucy, 'splain me!" (Security Question)
  • From: "Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:30:31 +0500

Dean,

This is a security enhancement that came in (I think) with V3R1.
*ALLOBJ, or adopting QSECOFR authority is no longer sufficient to work
with user profiles. You now need explicit *SECADM rights.

Dave Kahn, TCO, Kazakstan
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kahn@tengizchevroil.com   (to November 25)
dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk (from November 26)


>-----Original Message-----
>From:  DAsmussen@aol.com [SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
>Sent:  Monday, November 10, 1997 1:39 PM
>To:    midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject:       "Lucy, 'splain me!"  (Security Question)
>
>OK Folks,
>
>I'm obviously overlooking something here, so perhaps someone out there can
>point me in the right direction.  I have a user profile defined as user class
>*SECOFR, with *ALLOBJ special authority (among others) on a CISC system
>running V3R2 of OS/400.  Suddenly, perhaps after a PTF application, this user
>profile can no longer perform CHGUSRPRF or WRKDIRE -- it gets a "*SECADM
>special authority required" message for both functions.  As far as I can
>tell, both commands are still at the same factory default authority settings
>that they were when this profile _WAS_ able to perform these functions.
>
>Under the old V2 releases, a profile like this could have changed the QSECOFR
>password.  So what gives?
>
>
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