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My votes: AIX

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Add target limitations to PV_SU in AIX RBAC

If one of the PV_SU kernel privileges is used any target user id can be reached by a privileged command. There is currentliy no limitation to the list of target user id's for the su command. It would be great to get a way to limit the target user-...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Allow default setting of 'home' and 'shell' user attributes

Some customers will have their system's users defined remotely through LDAP or a similar module; these users might be defined on Windows AD, for example. Although typically there should be the ability to set a user's home directory and shell on th...
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

inetd needs hardening

inetd is too easily killed. We have had numerous examples over the years of customers or cluster software resetting systems only to find, looking in the crash dump, that inetd is not running. This is odd because srcmstr is responsible for restarti...
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

SUMA schouldn't download superseded packages

We use SUMA to download the latest fixes for a specific AIX-TL once a week. Every week the same set of files gets downloaded and is being removed immediately during lppmgr cleanup afterwards because a newer one is already present (and skipped duri...
about 3 years ago in AIX 1 Future consideration

Add protocol SMB 3.1.1 support to SMBC client for AIX

Currently, SMB 3.0.2 is the only supported protocol by SMBC client for AIX.As more and more cloud and storage providers support Microsoft SMB 3.1.1, it should be great that the SMBC client for AIX supports it.
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

Add DFS support to smbc client for AIX

Some clients require support for DFS support. Currently, smbc.rte does not provide this functionality.
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

SNMPv3 AES Encryption Support

Upgrade AIX SNMPv3 to support AES encryption.
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

In some scenarios?DBX cannot find the plug-in and execute the commands in the plug-in

In some scenarios，DBX cannot find the plug-in and execute the commands in the plug-in when debug cobol program.
about 3 years ago in AIX 2 Future consideration

API (probably in perfstat) for querying the VLAN(s) and vSwitch for virtual LAN interfaces

Haven't found a documented API for querying the VLAN(s) and vSwitch associated with a virtual LAN interface. Worked through an undocumented API for a plain, virtual interface, but that doesn't work if it's behind an EtherChannel or SEA.
about 3 years ago in AIX 0 Future consideration

requesting command line feature for destination frame during LKU

Currently you have to manually change a configuration file to determine the destination host for LKU when it cannot be done on the same system. We are requesting a command line option to determine the destination as part of the LKU command itself.
about 3 years ago in AIX 3 Future consideration

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