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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 4, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Add parm to force password history validation when the RACF ALTUSER NOEXPIRED command is used to change a users password.

When using the The z/OS RACF ALTUSER command (with the NOEXPIRED parameter) to change a user's password, a check against existing password histories (if they exist) is not performed. This effectively enables a circumvention of site security rules in effect for password history checking. (undesirable)

Please add a parameter to the RACF ALTUSER command that will enforce password validation against existing history before adding the password to the user's history stack. VALHIST might be a good name for this parameter. VALHIST is expected enforce history validation when the NOEXPIRED parameter is also specified. (a co-requisite parameter, in addition to PASSWORD)

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 29, 2023
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 10, 2018

    Would it be possible to change the status of this request so we can expect to see it in z/OS 2.4 ? In addition to the functional inconsistency, current behavior should also be regarded as problematic (a bug! :-) On the one hand it populates password history, but on the other does not check password history. (?!) The suggested enhancement, does a good job of addressing the situation.

    Thank you and best regards,
    Mike

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2018

    Thank you.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 13, 2018

    Thanks for submitting this requirement. Instead of a change to ALTUSER, would your requirement be satisfied by a change to RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY allowing NEWPASS without OLDPASS ?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 8, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - RACF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Security
    Product family - Security
    Product - IBM zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 4, 2017

    Attachment (Description): email thread with IBM RACF Development (BWells and company) regarding this issue.

    zOS RACF ALTUSE...
    zOS RACF ALTUSER email thread with BruceW.msg
     zOS RACF ALTUSER email thread with BruceW.msg
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    zOS RACF ALTUSER email thread with BruceW.msg

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