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My votes: Security

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Better security for password validation program

Hello, I'am wondering if that would not be possible to secure a little bit better the validation program that can be setup in the QPWDVLDPGM and/or in the "QIBM_QSY_VLD_PASSWRD » format VLDP0100 and VLDP0200 exit points. I understand that just the...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Delivered

Secure Kerberos keytab file

All single sign on interface can deal with *PUBLIC=*EXCLUDE for the NAS keytab file :/QIBM/UserData/OS400/NetworkAuthentication/keytab/krb5.keytab However, if you want to enable SSO for IBM Navigator for i SSO will not work with that specific sett...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Delivered

Check expiration certificate

Create a view or an udf who give the expiration date of a certificat SSL.The same option exist in DCM (manage user certificate and checkexpiration) .in this case who can create an alerte 30 days before expiration for exemple. Use Case: The same op...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 5 Delivered

increase encrypted password hash algorithm

The request is to increase the complexity of the hashed password as it is provided by QSYRUPWD API. Use Case: Even if the API is provided with *EXCLUDE authority for *PUBLIC, for a user profile with *ALLOBJ special authority, this is easy to retri...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

Remove invalid option from help for CHGUSRAUD.

Prompt CHGUSRAUD Press F1 for help on User action auditing . . . . . . AUDLVL You will see: *NETSCK Sockets tasks are audited. The following are some examples: o Accept o Connect o DHCP address assigned o DHCP address not assigned o Filtered mail ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Delivered

Provide warning when a user profile approaches maximum total user profile internal entries

Provide warning when a user profile approaches maximum total user profile internal entries, which is approximately 50 million entries. This number is the sum of owned object, private authority, authorized user, and primary group entries for any on...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Security 7 Delivered

API to check password

can you create an API to verify a generated password against - all the SYSVAL that applies - the exit program for verification of password peculiarly usefull in case of use of QPWDRULES(*ALLCRTCHG) or, better, an API able to create a password that...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered

Overide QMAXSIGN on user profile

Possibility to exclude singel user from QMAXSIGN system value. Use Case: Many users uses the same function (eg.FTP) with a common user profile (system user profile) IBM i. Sometimes one of the users logon with wrong password and accidenty disables...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Delivered

Support for bcrypt - password hashing

In order to create password hashes we need the bcrypt algorithm which is currently not supported by the Qc3EncryptData API. Alternatives like SHA-512 are not suited for password hashing. We would like this API (or a new one, or a callable C-functi...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 8 Delivered

Support a modern hashing algorithm like bcrypt as a password level

The currently available algorithms for i are a SHA1 hash (salted with username and mutually agreed upon IVs) and a custom DES implementation that does similar. The problem is both of these are broken algorithms - SHA1 has been broken in this decad...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Security 4 Delivered