RE: Adopted authority vs profile switching

["Rooney, Michael P [CPB]" <michael.p.rooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GA,

Agree with Joe's reply, some has "messed" with your machine.  You might also
want to look at the permissions assigned to QSYS.

HTH,

Michael Rooney
Citigroup International

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of G Armour
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Adopted authority vs profile switching


                Display Object Authority             
                                                     
 Object .  . . : QSECOFR   Owner  . . . . . : QSYS   
   Library . . :   QSYS    Primary group  . : *NONE  
 Object type . : *USRPRF   ASP device . . . : *SYSBAS
                                                     
                   Object     -Object--   --Data---  
 User     Group   Authority   O M E A R   R A U D E  
 QSYS             *ALL        X X X X X   X X X X X  
 QSECOFR          *ALL        X X X X X   X X X X X  
 *PUBLIC          *USE        X           X       X  

Other than shifting the contents so it wouldn't wrap in this email, this
is the actual screen.

Is this the shipped default?  Or did someone change this?

Looks like we have some auditing to do!

GA

--- Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Am I reading this right?  Joe User can sign on with his profile, use
> some
> > magic command, and he can become QSECOFR?  With no trace back to Joe
> > User's profile?
> 
> This is only if the user has *USE authority to the user profile.  Your
> users don't have *USE authority to QSECOFR, do they?!
> 
> A user with *USE authority to QSECOFR can run the following command and
> it
> will succeed:
> 
> ADDJOBSCDE JOB(TEST) CMD(CHGUSRPRF USRPRF(MYUSRPRF) SPCAUT(*ALLOBJ
>            *SECADM)) FRQ(*ONCE) USER(QSECOFR)
> 
> Now that they've got *ALLOBJ and *SECADM authority, they can do anything
> they want.
> 
> And all of this is possible without profile switching!
> 
> If you don't have *USE authority, then you have to know QSECOFR's
> password
> to use profile switching.  If you know the password, you'd be able to
> log
> on as QSECOFR directly and the ability to switch wouldn't matter much!
> 
> In reality, the scary part would be someone who has *USE authority to
> QSECOFR!!


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