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Security

Log invalid authentication attempts by user profiles with a password of *NONE

IBM i should be enhanced to log invalid sign-on attempts made against user profiles configured with PASSWORD(*NONE), and these attempts should be handled in a manner consistent with other failed authentication events. Today, these attempts are eff...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

The shipped value for *PUBLIC authority to the root is *RWX. WHY??????

IBM should reassess the default authority posture for the IBM i root directory, specifically where broad *RWX authority is allowed by default. From a modern security and resiliency perspective, this default creates unnecessary exposure and places ...
3 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Add the ability to process bundled certificate files in DCM

When you receive a Certificate file from a CA that has bundled Intermediate certificates in a single file you have to manually extract each certificate and install them in order to ensure the related certificates are available for verification. Th...
11 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Ability to limit which special characters are allowed or not allowed in a password.

Password changes performed through ACS is using Unicode. Because IBM i does not restrict special characters when QPWDRULES is active, users can select characters that are valid in Unicode but do not map consistently to the CCSID used on the IBM i....
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Authority Collection data should include successful checks, even when the user is the OWNER of the object

I ran into a strange behavior when using authority collection. Scott Forstie was able to confirm that it's currently working "as coded". However, I think it should be changed. When a user profile successfully accesses an object, and that user prof...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Automatic Management of TLS Certificates

Since the validity period of SSL/TLS certificates will be reduced from the current 398 days to 47 days starting in March 2029, managing certificates manually will become very difficult due to the significantly shortened validity.Therefore, a servi...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

IBM i: Add a new system value so we can enable to create automatically $HOME directory on User Profile creation

Today we use SSH, SFTP and VSCode more often than in the past, but when creating a new user profile the /home/USERID directory is not created. Please, add a new system value to enable automatic creation and select the $HOME base directory, in case...
4 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Zero-downtime security updates for exit program changes

Exit point based security solutions are an important part of the IBM i security ecosystem. However, they run into a technical limitation: Making changes to the exit programs, which tie the solutions in with IBM i server jobs, requires ending activ...
27 days ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Improve message of CPF5222 on CHGPWD

When changing a password upon expiration or during CHGPWD execution, if a blank or non-alphabetic character is entered in the current/new password field, the message CPF5222 'Name is not correct' is displayed. However, this message does not clearl...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Enhancement Request for Root CA Renew Procedure

we would appreciate it if you could advise if IBM has plans to release a new technote covering the step-by-step root CA renewal procedure for reference. Or from DCM, add some technote for renewing root CA. like not allowing the same root CA occurr...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

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