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Security

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Monitoring or tracking changes done in DCM

Hi Team, We have a scenario where certification was unassigned from one of the application and so inorder to prevent this from happening again, we need to identify the cause of this issue ie we need to know who has made those changes to the DCM. S...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Concealing Password on the ADDSVRAUTE Screen

To not reveal a password to onlookers when setting up a secure DDM environment.
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Enhance Security of QUSEADPAUT system value and USEADPAUT in general

This is similar in intent to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4498 In support of 'deny by default' security principle, arrangements should be made to only generate programs and service programs with USEADPAUT(*YES), when A) explicitly requested ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

IBM i Kerberos Authentication (SSSD Native Integration)

The existing IBM i SSO support provided by NAS & EIM only works with applications that have been Kerberized. Such as ACS or IBM i Access. To extend the reach & build on the features already provided by NAS & EIM an enhancement is requi...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

EIM System User credential setup on the terminal screen.

EIM System User can be specified solely on the Navigator i GUI. This limitation makes impossible any automation to follow the security rules and change the password regularly according the security standards. Provide a command to change the passwo...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v9.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

IBM i: Qualys is dinging us for OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984)Opened up a case with IBM . The reply to the case was:This vulnerability was discovered fairly recently and has low (3.6 base) score on the X-Force Exchange site . ...
9 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Default certificates when installing IBM i and SSL/TLS turned on by default

If we are trying to push customers to use security it would be great to have a default certificate and SSL turned on by default on FTP(s) , TELNET and HTTP connections. Use Case: When we deploy an OS image in most cloud environments (IBM PowerVS a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

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