Re: Preventing user profile lockout

Stu,

One way to do it is to use exit points and not allow the account to be
accessed from FTP, TELNET, etc.  It's a bit different approach than you
might have wanted but it is an effective way to control that type of DOS or
similar action.  That way the user access is stopped even before it get's
to the validation process.  Something I would recommend to people for their
IBM supplied accounts as well........


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I have a requirement to prevent certain service/connection accounts from
being locked out - for example due to password validation errors. This
is to prevent the profiles being deliberately locked out as part of a
denial of service attack.

We do not want to set QMAXSIGN to *NOMAX as this applies at a system,
rather than an individual profile level.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? Is there an exit point we can hook
into when a user profile is disabled and use this either to stop the
profile from being disabled or re-enable the profile? Is there a way to
override this system value at an individual user profile level?

Regards,
Stu

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