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IBM i Access Family

Develop a way to signon via QSECOFR account with a password less solution for ACS, Console and web-based applications.

This is To Comply with Audit requirement to enforce all Privilege Access accounts to move away from visible Passwords .
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

IBM i Minimum password length user level

On IBM i, the minimum password length is controlled by the system value QPWDMINLEN, which applies uniformly to all user profiles across the platform. While this provides centralized control, it does not allow differentiated password policies based...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

iAccess Printer Host-Based Security

Currently QTCP is required to start a Host Based Printer. However, this opens up security that a user can setup a HOST Based printer that allowed them to redirect the HR files. Is it possible to restrict a Host Based Printer from being started unl...
2 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Configure cronlog file cleanup settings during install of VIOS

By default the /var/adm/cron/log file does not get periodically cleaned up. This has caused us problems in the past, with /var becoming full preventing logins from occurring because the login files under /var cannot be updated with the login event...
3 months ago in PowerVM VIOS Under review

Provide FTP virtual directories

Allow a user (on a per user basis, preferable via the QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON exit) to be locked into a specific FTP directory... this directory should be his virtual root (jail). This concept prevents the user from navigating or specifying a path out...
3 months ago in IBM i / Networking Under review

IP awareness of MFA within TOTP intervals

MFA authentication must be renewed if requests come from a different IP address, even if a TOTP interval has been set.
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Add a function usage that allows selected users to restore programs with adopted authority, overriding the QALWOBJRST system value.

For security, a customer may by default set QALWOBJRST to disallow adopted authority objects to be restored. When a justified restore is needed, the setting is relaxed for a short time and for all users rather than just for the user(s) that actual...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Enhance(fix) the QLZARCAPI API so the messages returned are consistent.

Currently there are 3 messages(CPF9897) returned for an LPAR that is part of other LPARs on a frame. SYSTEM INFO, PARTITION INFO, and PROCESSOR POOL INFO Of these, the second stanza "PARTITION INFO" is not terminated by a period. I have been worki...
3 months ago in IBM i / Install and Upgrade and Licensing Under review

adding 2 columns to authority collection

I am using a lot authority collection. Fabulous tool even though not complete (some object types are not covered, which requires extra work). During my numerous remediation projects, I really feel we need to add 2 things in the collection: The tim...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Do not re-create QSECEXP1 job schedule when changing profile expiration date

Hi IBM team, When changing the date in the USREXPDATE of the CHGUSRPRF command, the QSECEXP1 job schedule is re-created even if it already exists. Also, the description disapears and the 'Scheduled by' is changed with the profile that did the chan...
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review