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senMQ
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:12 am    Post subject: mcauser Reply with quote

Acolyte

Joined: 14 Aug 2006
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Location: Palo Alto, CA

Currently we are running on MQ v6 and have this installed on most of our laptops. We have mcauser set to mqm in the system.admin.svrconn channels in multiple queue managers. This means right now, anyone would be able to access this qmgr through MQ explorer. Can I add specific set of userids to mca user parameter. Right now, I'm not able to add more than one user to mcauser. Is there a way out of this?

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tkane
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Voyager

Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 82
Location: Kansas City

Yes, mcauser('mqm') is very insecure.
I think the idea of how to do this is to make mcauser(' ') blank. This will allow the ID from the workstation signed on user to be used.

Also, using SSL on this would be the most secure way to handle this channel.

Tom
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senMQ
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Acolyte

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The default value for mcauser is ' '. With this setting none of us would be able to connect to the queue managers using MQ explorer. I want some of our administrators to have this access, but not everyone around.
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jefflowrey
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You can't set more than one user in MCAUSER.

You can, however, enable SSL, set the MCAUSER to some particular user that will give the sufficient priviledges (even if you need full admin authorities, it's probably better to create another user than MQM with those authorities), and then use SSL and SSLPEERs to ensure that only certain certificates belonging to certain user ids are valid to connect to the channel.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0701_col_wyatt/0701_col_wyatt.html
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senMQ
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Acolyte

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The default value for mcauser is ' '. With this setting none of us would be able to connect to the queue managers using MQ explorer. I want some of our administrators to have this access, but not everyone around.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yes, the way to do this *out of the box* is with SSL.
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