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This is a fun way around this.
It can be stopped but is fun to try.

From any logon do a <sys-req> 3.
Option 13 library list. Pick QUSRSYS option 5 and page down till you get to *MSGQ.

You used to be able to do on QSYS and find the *USRPRF, but I recall this was blocked by a PTF or version.

Bryan


On Nov 2, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think it's great to disable user profiles upon bad signon's.
Users can't generate a list of users? True. But they can generate a list of user message queues. They have to be able to. If they don't have access to the message queues then they can't send them a message.
So you generate a list of message queues like this
WRKOBJ OBJ(QUSRSYS/*ALL) OBJTYPE(*MSGQ)
Oh? You secured them from the command line? Simple to work around. They can download any number of tools to do this:

select objname
from table(OBJECT_STATISTICS('QUSRSYS', '*MSGQ')) x;

Then you just try signing on each one of those until they are disabled.
Soon, you've disabled every user on the system.
Great denial of service attack.

Rob Berendt
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