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Addition of Input Modules and Message Modification Modules to AIX rsyslog

We request the compilation of AIX rsyslog with the mmnormalize, impstats, immark, mmcount and mmjsonparse modules. This is necessary for our production and homologation servers. https://www.rsyslog.com/normalizer-first-steps-for-mmnormalize/ Input...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

aclput -R --ignoredirectory -i mycl /dir

I need to apply an AIXC ACL to the thousands of files in a directory tree as quickly as possible. The aclput -R command seems usable, but it also applies the ACL to the subdirectories found in the tree. As the acl is defined with rw-rw---- permiss...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets exit with error.

starting with version 4.6 rpm exits 0 even if the scriptlets (all but %pre and %preun) exit with error. IMHO this breaks legacy rpm behaviour (i.e. pre version 4.6) and leads to misunderstandings since a simple test on the rpm exit code is not rel...
3 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

AIX ansible support for generating encrypted passwords.

https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/issues/548 Request to add support to ansible for AIX to add user password generation with encryption
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Backport PCM FPIN congestion mechanism to AIX 7.2

We have noticed that in an environments with FPIN notifications enabled and high read rates and a larger storage throughput capacity that host ingestion capacity, the behaviour of AIX 7.3 and AIX 7.2 are quite different, leading in AIX 7.2 to scen...
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

AIX 7.2/7.3 EFS PCI DSS v4.0 Compliance

PCI DSS v4.0 requires sensitive customer data to be encrypted at the file level. File security and volume level encryption are not sufficient. We believe EFS meets the PCI 4.0 standard but it is not documented anywhere.
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

login messages should be seen with username instead of userid

Syslog reports: aixtest unix: The privilege command /usr/bin/vmstat, is executed by user with id 205 it would be helpful to see the username instead - even the best admin has not all userids in mind
5 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Add netmasks into ftpaccess.ctl

/etc/ftpaccess.ctl controls access to FTP service on AIX. Now you can specify only single hosts in the "allow:" line, separated by commas. Netmask values like "10.0.0.0/8" or "10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" can't be used. FTP doesn't recognize hosts in the n...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

Modify ulimit to display the lesser of nproc or maxuproc

As per this site https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-ulimit-and-maxuproc ulimit was recently changed to display a more accurate value than "unlimited" when nproc is -1, and instead show the maxuproc that provides the real limit.This helps provid...
6 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted

RBAC: ruid must accept all possible values

ruid attribute in privileged commands database sets the real user ID during command execution. It helps to drop off SUID bit from binaries and transfer them under RBAC management. Unfortunately the attribute can have only one value - 0. It means o...
7 months ago in AIX 0 Submitted