On 6/11/2013 8:31 AM, Jon Perryman wrote:
For security, the ones I know about are LDAP, RSA.and standard UNIX security 
model. I suspect there are others in the GRC field.

Your forgot kerberos, probably the most significant. z/OS supports LDAP (Tivoli) and kerberos and so it should. It has to play nicely with others and open standards are
the best way to achieve that.


What makes UNIX so fun is what makes it so much work. There are many methods 
and interfaces to do the same thing. In z/OS, we tend to have one or two 
interfaces. E.g. standard security on z/OS is provided by a single programming 
interface regardless of the ESM you are using.

It's a shame to same can't be said of the file system. In Unix everything is a file and shares the same API. I use the same interface for files, sockets, printers, terminals, modems or any other device.
I wish OS/360 had a similar unifying design principle back in the day.

Jon Perryman.



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From: Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za>



Could you be kind to list the differences between these systems on Security? 
z/OS has RACF (or other ESM). What do you use in UNIX / Linux / other world for 
security? Audit trails? Product management? Intrusion detection? etc?

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