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Thank you for taking the time to submit this IBM Idea and share your feedback with IBM and the broader IBM i community.
The CAAC has reviewed this Idea and, after careful consideration, does not recommend that IBM move forward with the request in its current form at this time.
Reason: The CAAC recognizes the importance of reducing password exposure and meeting audit requirements for privileged access. However, the council does not recommend enabling passwordless direct sign-on with QSECOFR, given the profile’s extensive system authority and the need to maintain strong individual accountability for privileged activity. The preferred approach is for administrators to use individually assigned profiles with the appropriate authorities and supported enterprise authentication mechanisms, rather than signing on directly with the shared QSECOFR profile. The CAAC believes the underlying requirement may be better addressed through secure, auditable passwordless authentication for named privileged users.
Although the CAAC is not recommending implementation of this request, Ideas such as this help IBM and the CAAC better understand the needs and priorities of the IBM i community. We appreciate your contribution and encourage you to continue submitting IBM Ideas and sharing your feedback.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) includes members with a broad range of experience working with small and medium-sized IBM i clients. The CAAC works with IBM i development to help assess the potential value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community.
For more information on the CAAC, visit: https://www.common.org/common-americas-advisory-council/
Brandon Pederson - CAAC Program Manager
IBM Power Systems Development
Could you use IBM i EIM / SSO to achieve this?
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=s-scenario-enabling-single-sign-i
PS Hopefully you would not do it with QSECOFR, as best practice is to have this user disabled but we certainly do this for our *SECOFR SysAdmin users.
Best wishes,
Steve Bradshaw
The Friendly Techie at RowtonIT.com
IBM Champion, Member of CEAC, TD of i-UG.co.uk