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Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 2, 2018

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Locking Down Open Source Package Management in ACS

How can we lock down the new feature Open Source Package Management in IBM i Access Client Solutions? How do we make sure non-system administrators do not play around with installing and uninstalling packages?


Use Case:

IBM i Access Client Solutions is deployed to all the users in our business. Only system administrators should be able to install/update/remove open source packages on the system. I searched but have not found any documentation on requirements to run this tool. Perhaps there are limits with who can run this option but I have not seen it in the documentation.
Also, it would be good to not even allow this option to be visible for the majority of users. Perhaps a config entry in the AcsConfig.properties.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 9, 2018

    Can this also be controlled via "function usage" permissions, or is this a client-side configuration only?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 8, 2018

    There is already a way to restrict the Open Source Package Management. Unfortunately, we failed to add this to the GettingStarted documentation before the update was released. The online documentation has been updated:
    ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/as400/products/clientaccess/solutions/GettingStarted_en.html

    Adding the following line to AcsConfig.properties will hide the function:
    com.ibm.iaccess.ExcludeComps=OSSSETUP

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 3, 2018

    You need a user with SSH access to your system... so if you don't run SSH or the user has no access the option can't be abused.

    But it would indeed be nice that AcsConfig.properties contains an entry for com.ibm.iaccess.ExcludeComps.

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