Safeguard Administrator's Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Controlling User Access
- Introduction
- Using SAFECOM to Establish a Local User Community
- Using SAFECOM to Manage User Access to Your System
- Changing the Owner of a User Authentication Record
- Granting a User Temporary Access to Your System
- Requiring Users to Change Their Passwords
- Granting a Grace Period for Changing an Expired Password
- Forcing Immediate Expiration of a User’s Password
- Freezing a User's Ability to Access the System
- Specifying Auditing for a User ID
- Deleting Users
- Deleting Administrative Groups
- Using SAFECOM to Establish a Network of Users
- Using Safeguard With Nodes With Standard Security
- Identifying Network Users
- Granting a Network User Access to Objects on Your System
- Establishing a Community of Network Users
- Changes to the PAID During a User’s Session
- Additional Considerations for Aliases and Groups
- Additional Considerations for ACCESS with Network Specific Subject IDs
- Establishing Default Protection for a User's Disk Files
- Specifying a Default Command Interpreter for a User
- Establishing Guardian Defaults
- Assigning an Alias to a User
- 3 Managing User Groups
- 4 Securing Volumes and Devices
- 5 OBJECTTYPE Control
- 6 Managing Security Groups
- 7 Securing Terminals
- 8 Warning Mode
- 9 Configuration
- Safeguard Attributes
- Configuring User Authentication
- Configuring Password Control
- Configuring Device Control
- Configuring Process Control
- Configuring Disk-File Control
- Configuring Safeguard Auditing
- Configuring a Default Command Interpreter
- Configuring Communication With $CMON
- Configuring Logon Dialog
- Configuring Exclusive Access at Safeguard Terminals
- Configuring Warning Mode
- Configuring Persistence
- Configuring Attributes for Node Specific Subjects in ACLs
- 10 Installation and Management
- Safeguard Components
- Process Considerations for the SMP and SAFECOM
- Safeguard Subsystem Management Commands
- General Installation Procedure
- Installing the Safeguard Software
- Starting the SMP
- Converting to the Safeguard Subsystem
- Updating the Safeguard Software
- Guidelines for Securing the Safeguard Subsystem
- Monitoring the Safeguard Subsystem
- A SAFECOM Command Syntax
- Index
Controlling User Access
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Assigning an Alias to a User
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In addition, the local super ID can add an alias for any user regardless of the
existence of an OBJECTTYPE USER record (unless OBJECTTYPE USER
specifically denies the super ID).
Each alias must be unique within the local system. An alias is a case-sensitive text
string that can be up to 32 alphanumeric characters in length. In addition to alphabetic
and numeric characters, the characters period (.), hyphen (-), and underscore (_) are
permitted within the text string. The first character of an alias name must be alphabetic
or numeric.
An alias name cannot match an existing user name when it is converted to uppercase
letters. For example, the alias Dev12.PatM is not allowed if a user name DEV12.PATM
already exists.
These names are examples of valid aliases:
BILL-J
my-new-name
juj_smails
Admin5
36checker
BBonds.660
YodaJones
This example shows how to assign an alias to a user. In the example, the group
manager for the user SOFTWARE.RALPH (user ID 4,32) assigns the alias RalphW to
the user:
=ADD ALIAS RalphW, software.ralph, PASSWORD BluSky
SOFTWARE.RALPH can now log on with alias RalphW. When he logs on using this
alias, he must enter the password BluSky.
The alias RalphW can also be assigned its own unique set of user attributes that can
differ from those assigned to the user name SOFTWARE.RALPH. For example, the
group manager issues the following command to specify auditing for every access
attempt performed by SOFTWARE.RALPH when he is logged on with the alias
RalphW:
=ALTER ALIAS RalphW, AUDIT-USER-ACTION-PASS ALL, &
=AUDIT-USER-ACTION-FAIL ALL
The group manager then uses this command to verify the alias authentication record
for RalphW:
=INFO ALIAS RalphW, DETAIL