Archive for the Category: MQ Authenticate User Security Exit

New: MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v2.0.0

September 3, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v2.0.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS. MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS is a solution that allows a company to fully authenticate a user who […]

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New: MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v2.0.0

August 30, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v2.0.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Authenticate User Security Exit. MQ Authenticate User Security Exit is a solution that allows a company to fully authenticate a user who is accessing a WebSphere MQ resource. […]

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MQAUSX and MQCE setup on 2 Solaris servers & Client Encrypted File

May 3, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Using MQAUSX and MQCE together is only a little more complex than uses a single MQ exit. The same software is installed on the server regardless if it is acting as a “server” or “client”. So, let’s go through a setup and test of MQAUSX and MQCE on 2 Solaris servers where 1 Solaris server […]

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MQAUSX and MQCE setup on 2 Solaris servers

May 2, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Using MQAUSX and MQCE together is only a little more complex than uses a single MQ exit. The same software is installed on the server regardless if it is acting as a “server” or “client”. So, let’s go through a setup and test of MQAUSX and MQCE on 2 Solaris servers where 1 Solaris server […]

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Exits and WMQ installed in a non-default location

April 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I have been testing Capitalware products (various exits) on different platforms with WebSphere MQ v7.1 & v7.5 and life was going along very well. I had a customer (who uses our security exit) just contacted me saying that they have a Linux server with 3 different releases of MQ installed (v7.0.1.9, v7.1.0.0 and v7.5.0.1) where […]

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dlsym and dlerror Weirdness on Solaris

February 14, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Lately, I have been complaining about Microsoft’s Visual C++, so I figured I better write about some recent Solaris weirdness. A customer installed MQAUSX on Solaris v10 that has WebSphere MQ v7.0.1.9 installed. They configured MQAUSX to authenticate the incoming MQ client connections against a remote LDAP server. Everything was working perfectly fine. Here’s what […]

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Security with Secret Phrases, Passwords, etc.

November 19, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Over the weekend, I was reading different articles/blogs about how people think that passwords, no matter how long, are useless. These people write that their accounts (email, Apple, phone, bank, etc) were hacked even when they used long passwords. When you reread the articles/blogs and analyze what they are saying, you realize that the password, […]

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MQAUSX and Microsoft Active Directory

March 21, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Centralize authentication is a great thing. Many customers use MQAUSX on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris and authenticate against Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a remote LDAP server. Since, AD conforms to LDAP v3, this generally works very well. Some companies configure their AD servers such that the attribute sAMAccountName contains the user’s […]

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Where’s the MQ Security?

February 15, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I was at Wendy’s (in Canada) for lunch today and the cashier put the following flyer on my tray: Of course, it made me smile because I recently wrote a blog item that MQ people still need to implement either SSL or a security exit in WMQ v7.1. Maybe, I should create some T-Shirts with […]

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MQAUSX LDAP on Linux x86 & Linux x64

February 1, 2012 Roger Lacroix

When MQAUSX first supported LDAP authentication, Capitalware used Novell’s LDAP Libraries for C for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux x86, Linux x64 (x86 64-bit) and Windows. Several years ago, for AIX, HP-UX and Solaris platforms, we switched to the native/included client LDAP libraries that are available for each OS (Operating System). This week, a weird bug […]

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