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CDW services should be running as non-system and non-admin user account

Our security assessment team found an issue with 'System' running CDW services by default. Although IBM allows a service account to run CDW services, it requires this account to be a member of local admin group. Either method causes security conce...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Not under consideration

Selecting Active Directory Group for authentication

Instead of selecting each user from LDAP and give access. If we have option to select the Active Directory Group(low_pre_access_group, high_pre_access_group) from LDAP and assign to access. It will be helpful and reduce task of adding every new us...
about 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 3 Needs more information

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.
about 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Future consideration

Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter

This idea was previously raised for CDz CONDIRECTZ-I-8, however, it was informed by CDz L3 that the enhancement in CDz will not be able to work on remote Distributed CD nodes. Therefore, this request is raised for similar function on distributed p...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

FileAgent become another user

Allow File Agent user to become another account as specific folders are owned by different accounts. A little history, we were using some product to monitor files for different directories, the product allowed us to become another user to pick up ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Security enhancement in GUI: would it be possible to add GUI session timeout parameter which would lock session or log off user ?

this request came from security team/audit, they believe it would improve product security
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Functionality already exists

Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator and user Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information
about 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Not under consideration

Allow utility scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh to run in non interactive mode

Currently I'm not able to run scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh in the non interactive mode. There is no option to pass the multiple input passphrases to those scripts. Those scripts will also error out if I...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Update SNMP support to v3

Security benefits, as per security issues detailed here: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-156A
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SEAS

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSPcm, Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration