6.29 Restrict Access to SYSCAT.AUTHORIZATIONIDS

Information

SYSCAT.AUTHORIZATIONIDS is an administrative view for the currently connected server.

Solution

Perform the following to revoke access from PUBLIC.
1. Connect to the DB2 database.
db2 => connect to $DB2DATABASE user $USERNAME using $PASSWORD
2. Run the following command from the DB2 command window-
db2 => revoke select on syscat.AUTHORIZATIONIDS from public

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/162

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6, CSCv6|5.1

Plugin: IBM_DB2DB

Control ID: 8ce8482f91fa01bc8244c8209a31a00d6ff8e412fea01baecd917e920b8707d3