RE: Adopted Authority and *IOSYSCFG - is this a bug ?

["Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

R730 SI68163 PTF was superseded by SI76395

Paul

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Maybe they hardcode a check in there for job user and/or current user instead of relying upon program adoption?
If they do current user they profile handles should fix it.
If they do job user you might have to submit a job or some such thing.

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Hi Rob

Yeah the programs attached to the *TCPHTE commands all show USRPRF(*OWNER) and USEADPAUT(*YES)

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 7:40 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's easy.  Let me explain it to you.  See if you get the same results.
>
> DSPCMD QTCP/CHGSMTPA
> DSPPGM PGM(QTCP/QTMSCHSMTP)
> Use adopted authority  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *YES
>
> DSPCMD QSYS/ADDTCPHTE
> DSPPGM QTOCADDHTE
> Use adopted authority  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *YES
>
> DSPOBJD OBJ(QTOCADDHTE) OBJTYPE(*PGM) DETAIL(*SERVICE)
> Licensed program . . . . . . . . . . :   5770SS1    V7R4M0
> PTF number . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
>
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> Hi Rob
>
> thanks for that
>
> I read the same part of the manual you did regarding *ALLOBJ and had 
> much the same thought. Did they mean it only applies to *ALLOBJ or did 
> someone forget to do a scan and replace?
> Other sections of the manual were explicit that when a program ran 
> with *OWNER authority, authority checking was done against both 
> profiles including their special authorities so I concluded that it 
> should work as expected.
> As far as the Host table entry goes, the real requirement is to add a 
> host table entry for the system itself which I have found is needed 
> for various reasons.
> Good pickup on the PTF, that looks to be much the same issue.
> It's still really interesting to me that the startup program appears 
> to adopt the correct authority but the called program doesn't.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:26 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Or you just apply the ptf to fix this
> > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/SE69810
> > If this PTF only applies to CHGSMTPA then open a new ticket and say
> you're
> > having the same issue with adding a host table entry.
> >
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> > Hi All
> >
> > I've been working on some small programs that make changes requiring 
> > *IOSYSCFG which are to be run at startup. All the programs work as
> expected
> > except for one thing: adopted authority does not provide *IOSYSCFG 
> > to the user that calls the program.
> >
> > What I found when I added a call to my program into the program 
> > specified in QSTRUPPGM was that job QSTRUPJD would fail even though 
> > the program making the changes was using adopted authority.
> >
> > Looking in the Security Reference I can't see anything specific 
> > about *IOSYSCFG not being allowed for adopted authority, but I note 
> > that most
> of
> > the examples relate to object security.
> >
> > To test I wrote a small program that adds a host table entry:
> >
> > PGM
> > ADDTCPHTE  INTNETADR('192.168.9.99') HOSTNAME((DELETE.ME)) ENDPGM
> >
> > I then compiled the program with USRPRF(*OWNER) and made sure the 
> > owner
> had
> > *IOSYSCFG special authority. When I run the program using a profile
> without
> > *IOSYSCFG I get:
> > TCP8050: *IOSYSCFG authority required to use ADDTCPHTE.
> >
> > What is even stranger to me is that if I change the program 
> > specified in QSTRUPPGM to USRPRF(*OWNER) and change the owner of 
> > that program to a profile with *IOSYSCFG special authority, the call 
> > to the program
> requiring
> > *IOSYSCFG runs as expected and QSTRUPJD completes normally.
> >
> > This seems like a bug, but it would not surprise me if there is a
> security
> > exception somewhere that I just haven't found.
> >
> > Any other theories or suggestions ?
> >
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