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SteveG
PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:41 am    Post subject: WBIMB application database security access Reply with quote

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Joined: 06 Sep 2002
Posts: 6
Location: Seattle

As we migrate from WMQI V2.1 to WBIMB V5.0 one of the new features we have an interest in is the ability to isolate access to application databases via the mqsisetdbparms command. Or so I thought.

Under WMQI once a database was set up to be used by a Message Flow, via granting the broker service id access rights in SQL Server, any Message Flow within the broker had access to that database simply by referencing the ODBC DSN in a Compute or Database* node. This presented an issue with applications running in the same broker that should not have each access to each other's databases.

I was thinking the WBIMB would allow us to close this hole. However, if I use the mqsisetdbparms command to create a user id and password pair for a given DSN what would prevent App A from referencing App B's databases if their flows are running in the same broker? The apps do have separately assigned execution groups, and ACL rules that prevent them from seeing each other's execution groups, but the setdbparms command sets the the parms at a broker, not at an execution group level.

Am I missing something?
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JT
PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joined: 27 Mar 2003
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Location: Hartford, CT.

No, you're not.

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I was thinking the WBIMB would allow us to close this hole.

Apparently the scope of the mqsisetdbparms command wasn't as far reaching as you anticipated. It would seem that the intent was to provide a modicum of flexibility, allowing for distinct database ids for each user database, and move away from the single database id for all database access, that id being the broker service id.

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what would prevent App A from referencing App B's databases if their flows are running in the same broker?

AFAIK, WBI does not provide a solution for this gap.

However, to ensure this doesn't occur, you could , depending upon your threshold for pain:
  • Perform a 'code walk-thru'
  • Examine the contents of the BAR file, looking for a 'datasource' value that is not authorized for the application.
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