Implementing iSeries Profile Swapping and Adopted Authority policies is a great idea for reducing the number of powerful profiles on the IBM i, especially if most users only need elevated authority for specific tasks or occasional access to sensitive data. On the IBM i (iSeries AS400), the Profile Swapping, Adopted Authority and Elevated Authority procedures are more commonly referred to by compliance regulations and other platforms as Privileged Access Management (PAM) proceedures. However these processes ultimately have the same objective, limiting the number of user profiles on the iSeries that possess unnecessary special authorities (or having a powerful user classes or have no...
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