Re: Profile security

Ray,

>>I understand that, but can you explain to me how having the mentioned
profiles with Limited Capability equal to *NO and Password (*NONE) can
cause a problem?  By the way, I did not mean to include QSECOFR in the list
of profiles.<<

>>His exact words were, "You have too many profiles with Limited Capability
equal to *NO and Password equal to *NONE."  Does that mean that I should
change all the IBM profiles that are not being use to Limited Capability
equal to *YES???<<

I can think of no security exposure that is simply caused by having LMTCPB
(*NO) for a user profile that also has PASSWORD(*NONE). If the security
level of the system was set to 10 that by itself is a security exposure. If
a LMTCPB(*YES) or LMTCPG(*PARTIAL) user profile has *USE authority to a
LMTCPB(*NO) user profile that could be a security exposure, if you are
using menu security. (Menu security is rarely secure.) Perhaps this is what
the security auditor is referring to. Why don't you ask them.

If you change any IBM supplied user profile, other than QUSER, to LMTCPB
(*YES) you may find that you have to change it back if and when a real
person needs to sign on using that user profile.

Ed Fishel,
edfishel@US.IBM.COM


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