I would suspect that it exposes potential attack vectors for the system. Ideally the system should be secure but loose lips sink ships.
Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org “To my Ph.D. supervisor, for whom no thanks is too much.” > On Feb 3, 2022, at 6:12 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 > <0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I'll be the first to admit that I know just enough of what is in SYS1.PARMLIB > to be dangerous, BUT . . . > > What information could possibly be gleaned from reading PARMLIB that would > require a knowledgeable auditor to insist on restricting read access (other > than security by obscurity and sysprog/auditor job security)? > > Just curious, I don't plan on hacking anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
