donna garverick <mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> --- "Newton, Ernie" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,

>> Vladimir visited us last week and again raked me
>> over the coals for inadequate securities.  It's an
>> annual occurrence.
>
> just say no :-)
>
>> That being said, there are things I need to do.  I found
>> some logons without passwords and am curious about any
>> ramifications there may be if I put an account password
>> there.  These seem to be "system" accounts that include;
>> APACHE, JAVA, HPPL89, etc.

I run jobs every 24 hours on all my systems that put random account, user,
and group passwords on all these "system" accounts; in fact ANY
account/user/group that isn't used on a regular basis by real users. (using
contributed rndpass program on www.3k.com )

Just make sure that any startup jobs/ sysstart etc utilize the :JOBSECURITY
settings, or you use a utility that negates the need for imbedded passwords
in job streams.

 -Chris Bartram

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