In <769b2e18f7b2fa48b3adea85570a28769a560...@mtl-hq-x01.cn.ca>, on
03/04/2014
at 03:51 PM, Leonardo Vaz <leonardo....@cn.ca> said:
>Would it be any less a security breach to invoke such a
>program from JCL with "EXEC PGM=..." which likewise causes it to run
>in the authorized state?
Yes. What makes it a security breach is allowing an unauthorized
program to invoke it authorized in an uncontrolled manner. IBM has
written voluminously about this issue.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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