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  3. May 2005

Re: Object Auditing

I get that Eserver magazine but did not recall Ed Fishel's article.  So I
retrieved it out of our library.  Seems that I was so intrigued by his time
lapse photo of the eagle that I turned the page and went right by the
article.

Anyway in reading his article he mentions the command CHGSYSSEC but warns to
retrieve the CL source and study it before using the command.  I was curious
and retrieved the source code.  WOW! Seems like a land mine waiting to go
off.  

This command changes about 20-30 system values and 5 user profiles. Things
like QSECURITY = 50; QSYSOPR password = *NONE. It also runs several programs
with no clue what they do. It looks to me like something a person would be
tempted to run if they just got fired and were asked to leave.

Why would IBM ship something so dangerous?

Greg

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