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ankurlodhi
PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:39 am    Post subject: Difference between basic MQ authintication and IDPWOS Reply with quote

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Hi all,

i want to understand the difference between, basic MQ authentication and IDPWOS for an MQ client.

what we usually do is we create a user on MQ server and application team connects using that username and password through MQ client.

now this username and password is already on MQ server, so isn't IDPWOS already configured even if we don't setup connauth?
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hughson
PostPosted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I don't understand what you mean by "basic authentication" - could you elaborate further please?

Using CONNAUTH with IDPWOS means that the queue manager will check the user id and password you provide, and even mandate that you must provide one if you do not. This is the most basic authentication IBM MQ provides.

When your application team usually connects providing a username and password, what is checking that password is correct if you are not using IDPWOS? If you don't know the answer to this, may I suggest you attempt to enter an incorrect password deliberately and see what happens. This may illustrate to you that nothing is checking the password.

To reiterate, if CONNAUTH is not set up (or you have a version of MQ earlier than V8) the queue manager is not checking the password for you - you may have something else, an exit for example, that is, but there is nothing out of the box in the queue manager that is checking it unless you have CONNAUTH configured.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Also if your connauth is configured with ADOPTCTX(NO) you may supply 2 identities. One that gets checked for authentication and another one that doesn't get checked at all and that will be used for authorization!!

This is bad practice.

This is why since MQ 9.1 (or was it 9.0 ?), the default is to set ADOPTCTX(YES). This means that you HAVE to use the MQCSP structure if the id sent to MQ for authentication and authorization doesn't match the id of the running process.

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