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Security

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IBM i Minimum password length user level

On IBM i, the minimum password length is controlled by the system value QPWDMINLEN, which applies uniformly to all user profiles across the platform. While this provides centralized control, it does not allow differentiated password policies based...
5 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

IP awareness of MFA within TOTP intervals

MFA authentication must be renewed if requests come from a different IP address, even if a TOTP interval has been set.
21 days ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

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...
7 months ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

Add a function usage that allows selected users to restore programs with adopted authority, overriding the QALWOBJRST system value.

For security, a customer may by default set QALWOBJRST to disallow adopted authority objects to be restored. When a justified restore is needed, the setting is relaxed for a short time and for all users rather than just for the user(s) that actual...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 3 Under review

adding 2 columns to authority collection

I am using a lot authority collection. Fabulous tool even though not complete (some object types are not covered, which requires extra work). During my numerous remediation projects, I really feel we need to add 2 things in the collection: The tim...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Provide a POST /security/dcm/appdef/add to the RSE APIs (HTTP ADMIN5)

I have written an application to automate the Let's Encrypt process for issuing and renewing certificates. It would be very useful to have this as I don't believe that there is an API or any other method for automation.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Issue audit journal entry when Password Level 4 hash is generated at signon.

For high availability replication products, knowledge is needed when a user profile changes. In most cases an audit journal entry is issued. However, when both the source and target systems are at OS 7.5 or 7.6 and a user profile does not yet have...
5 months ago in IBM i / Security 1 Under review

Tcp server certificate hot reload

A few days ago I read an article reporting the future intention to go to decrease the duration of certificates, it would be important to make sure that the application of such certificates would not require the shutdown and subsequent activation o...
8 months ago in IBM i / Security 4 Under review

Allow programs and service programs to FORCE library at top of system library list.

When creating or changing Commands and Menus (*CMD, *MNU) objects you can set the PRDLIB, which cause the specified library to be inserted between the system library list and the user library list in the library list order. This provides a nice wa...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

Extend field in SSL trace output that includes cipher information

When analyzing output of SSL trace data, this may involve dumping the output to a spreadsheet for further analysis and comparison against cipher lists from QSSLCSL and/or SST (TLSCONFIG). The challenge when comparing data is that since many cipher...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review