RE: Programing Question/Authority...

["JIM LANGSTON" <JLANGSTON@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At my last position where I was responsible for the AS/400 totally, I went
though that book, "Tips
and Tools for Securing your AS/400" step by step and checked the security on
my AS/400, fixing some things that weren't right, mostly having to do with
default passwords which I either changed or *disabled the account with a
password of *NONE.

I also ran the step for checking for adopted authority and found something
like 2 programs on the entire system that adopted authority.  I think it is
extremly worthwhile to go through that book.

But, as you mention, this was a small shop, so maybe you're right that it's
not practiced in larger shops.

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Chris Rehm
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:03 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Programing Question/Authority...


Informal show of hands: How many read and apply such practices? Just
curious. I have been in some big shops where this stuff wasn't practiced.

When I worked in Las Vegas as a software vendor that was responsible for
maintaining our software on the sites of our customers and those customers
gave us network attachment, I used to use some pretty basic tricks to get to
do what I wanted/needed. I never abused this to mess with data that I wasn't
responsible for, but I knew that I could.

I know that it is possible to be extremely secure on an AS/400. I am often
impressed how far the system has gone with even basic standard practices.

Maybe things are maturing, but I once walked into a Las Vegas property where
I happened to be going to dinner and noticed a 400 sign on. I discovered
that not all the IBM supplied IDs had been changed.

Oops, I guess I'm getting awful far afield. But anyway, granting *owner
authority does make sense at times but I think it really needs to be thought
out and should be audited.

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


----- Original Message -----
From: "alan shore" <SHOREA@dime.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Programing Question/Authority...


> If you read the IBM security reference manual, there are ways to capture
this (plus other) information, already available at NO cost (except
development time).
>
> >>> <rob@dekko.com> 07/26/01 01:05PM >>>
>
> Chris,
>
> <snip> QSECOFR should be generating a report on objects with *owner
> authority and an eye should be kept on how
> they work.
> <endsnip>
>
> Many of the security tools will do some of this work for you.  - report on
> objects with *owner authority.  An example is PentaSafe.  How they work,
> may be a separate issue.
>
>
>


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