John,

How do you track RACF violations and report on them ?

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
understand. - Chinese Proverb


On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:38 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Took the easy way out. Superseded all ICH408I messages from SYSLOG which
> have USER( at the front of word two. I see no need for them. We use SMF
> records for reporting.
> On Sep 18, 2012 10:18 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have seen that. And other strange keying errors.  PEBKAC. Now that you
>> mention it, I may use a CA-OPS/MVS rule to "blank out" portions of the
>> ICH408I messages. Say in the USER(...), GROUP(...) and NAME(...) portions.
>> I don't use them anyway. I use the SMF records.
>> 
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
>>> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:13 AM
>>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: z/OS SYSLOG - why not let everybody read?
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:21:11 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ed Gould wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 1. I have seen passwords on the syslog.
>>>> 
>>>> Can you show any example(s) of such messages? Of course you can mask
>>> out the passwords before posting. ;-)
>>>> Was that by design [1] or by operator error? Was that a verbatim copy
>>> of some command?
>>> It's easy for a user to tab to the wrong field and inadvertently
>>> type a password in the user ID field.  The user may correct the
>>> error and continue, not realizing that the password may now
>>> appear in SYSLOG.
>>> 
>>> Mistake?  Sure.  Process violation?  Sure.  Security exposure
>>> nonetheless.
>>> 
>>> -- gil
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