RE: Disable QSECOFR?

Yes it is.

But consider the situation where the device listed in the system value
QCONSOLE is varied off, damaged, or ....?

Maybe the HMC has an issue and you cannot get a console started?

Now what?

I fix way more console issues than QSECOFR profile disabled issues.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin
Taylor
Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 1:09 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Disable QSECOFR?

Per the docs, a disabled QSECOFR can log on the console. Is that not true?
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsecofr-profile-disabled

Thanks


date: Thu, 6 May 2021 14:18:59 -0500

from: <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Disable QSECOFR?

It's a great idea until you need QSECOFR to do something on the system
and all your other high authority profiles are disabled, and the
profile you have does not have sufficient authority.

So you can sign into DST to reset the IBM i QSECOFR profile, but damn
that just got disabled too. Now you don't have ANY high authority
profiles to fix whatever it is that requires high authority. If you
can't get one of those two profiles fixed then to recover them you
must reload the system
(entirely) from tape.

Yea, great idea. (OK I'm a bit snarky here but at some point you
gotta wonder who am I protecting?)

Yes long passwords
Yes restrict devices
Monitor security logs to look for attempts to hack it Make DANG sure
you have a profile (no Q in first position) that is a back up that is
as heavily protected/restricted.
Disabled, not on my systems.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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