But can't you use Enhanced Authentication and Enhanced Authorization to
grant specific rights to certain users on a remote console? (pp. 395-423
Unix Admin Manual).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Eric P. Forgette
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 6:04 AM
> To: Bob Grabbe
> Cc: BM128506 AT exchange.daytonoh.ncr DOT com; 
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Xterm software and 4.5 JAVA Interface
> 
> 
> This is one of my only complaints about 4.5.  NetBackup 3.4 
> had role based access via the java gui which ran on NT.  Now, 
> in NetBackup 4.5, you have to install the full product and 
> trust the workstation as a server to be able to admin from 
> NT/2000.  This is a huge security issue.  I spoke with 
> Veritas about this and apparently they have a java admin 
> console for NT/2000, but didn't release it because they felt 
> that it ran too slow to release to the public.
> 
> The Solaris java admin console works wonderfully, and so does 
> the linux version!  It might be more cost effective to get an 
> old scrapped laptop, install linux on it, and install the 
> java admin gui.  
> 
> Does anyone have any other ideas for getting the role based 
> access functionality back?
> 
> Regards,
> -Eric
> -- 
> Eric P. Forgette
> Unix Systems Administrator
> http://perlvault.sourceforge.net/ 
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