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  3. July 2007

RE: Auditing, renaming, deleting IBM profiles

From: Chris Bipes

It would be nice if IBM created a system value for each of their
profiles allowing you to rename them. Much like the local security
policy that windows has that renames and tracks the name of the local
admin profile under windows XP. We use this local security policy to
rename our admin profile then create a new admin profile with guest
authority and a very complex and long password. Sort of a honey pot. I
would like to do that with the IBM supplied profiles.

The more I think about this, the more I tend to agree. Since FTP, TELNET or
ODBC access can be used to quickly disable these profiles (I just disabled
QSECOFR using FTP), it would be nice to be able to rename the profiles.
This is not security through obscurity, but rather removing common entry
points.

This is also a really good reason to have exit point programs on all servers
to disallow any access by system profiles.

Joe



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