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Authorization list or similar for User Profiles / Function Usage for Role Swapping

When you need to swap profiles from one "Application user" to the "real user" (for example if you are running web services), the application user must have *Use privilegies for the user profile. If you need to give permission to a user to several ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

ANZPRFACT - output to *OUTFILE or *PRINT or to the screen to check which profiles are candidates for disabling

Hello, We would like to use ANZPRFACT functionality/command on regular basis, but not having a chance to check which profiles are candidates for disabling. Idea is to enahnce the ANZPRFACT command to have output to OUTFILE or PRINT or to the scree...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Enable SHA-2 pwd encryption on IBM i V7R4

We have customer audit that change the pwd encryption to SHA-2, but now we are using V7R4 and only SHA-1 is supported
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add long username for addition to current userprofile to enable login with longer usernames on smb, ftp, web or odbc etc

With the long password we can use passwords > 10 chars.Maybe it is possible to add a additional field to the usrprf to enable logins from all others then green screen with longer usernames.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Digital Certificate Manager - Automatically import CA certificates from 'Populate with CAs' list on certificate import if signature matches.

We currently have a 'Populate with CAs' function in DCM that has most well known third party CA certificates that can be selected and imported into the *SYSTEM store. It would be extremely helpful if we could automatically import CA certificates f...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Allow CHGAUTCOL command to enable authority collection on objects with type *USRPRF

Use case: A user profile object is secured with *PUBLIC *USE, allowing anyone on the system to submit jobs to run under that unsecured user profile. Securing the *USRPRF with *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE might break some existing processes which rely on the e...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Allow 'Show Password' capability for command parameters

Many modern APIs where password inputs are expected have an option to 'show password' as it is typed. Define a standard function key to use when prompting a command that will cause the field where the cursor is sitting to show the input (overridin...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add an EMAIL space to the *USRPRF object and allow that value to be retrieved with the qsyrusri api and RTVUSRPRF CL command

As we add more and more user profiles, the need to send those users email from the IBM i partition (using whatever) is important. However, today there is no way to associate an email address with an end-user's *USRPRF. For example, if I need to se...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 3 Not under consideration

fast path should be on the new digitial certificate manager (dcm)

the old digital certificate manager had fast path so why doesn't the new digital certificate manager have fast path
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 2 Not under consideration

Allow more than 16 group profiles for a user profile

Actually, one can link a user profile to 16 group profiles. For RCAC performance, we need to link a user profile to more than 16 group profiles.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security 1 Not under consideration