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Use trusted logging with db2audit to protect audit data from instance users and root

On Aix there is a trusted logging which can be used by syslog and AIX auditing. It would be nice if db2 can use this as well to store its audit data. At the moment it is written to Audit Data Path. It would be nice if this can be a character mode ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

mixed case sensitive support for db2 luw on linux platform

On linux and other Unices, connecting to db2 luw with users having capital letters into their user name is not possible since the db2 security components, I guess the standard OS security plugin, assume that usernames are all lower cases.This beha...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority

After discussing this with our developers they agree that the ability to rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority. They agree that having the rename procedure automatically handle the recreation of RC...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Use encryption of user and password for client/server communication as default

Default value of the dbm cfg AUTHENTICATION parameter is SERVER. Also the jdbc/jcc driver does not encrypt the user and password values in a connection by default. Two solution options:1. change default value for dbm cfg authentication from SERVER...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Profiling for athorities and privileges

Often application owners/developers do not exactly know which authorities (like LOAD) and privileges (like read on syscat tables) are needed on a database for the application workload. It would be helpful to have a method to capture the privileges...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

New DB2 LUW Authentication Option

We would like a compatibility mode for SERVER_ENCRYPT authentication. It would provide a grace period for client connections before encryption is enforced via SERVER_ENCRYPT. Essentially, it would allow DB2 Clients to connect with either clear tex...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Security 1 Not under consideration

Security at a granular level(RIMS)

security at a more granular level. Want loadforce, alter not logged initially, refresh, etc without having to grant control, dbadmn. And load at the table level NOT database. High. Lisa Lagrow
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

sqldbdir & sqlnodir owned by regular user / Security exposure (RIMS)

PMR 44825,035,649 db2icrt creates a directory ~/sqllib with 775 permissions for a new instance. It does not 'bother' to intially create directories ~/sqllib/sqldbdir, ~/sqllib/sqlnodir and ~/sqllib/sqlgwdir. If dbm cfg is updated with a group for ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration