Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] NBU & Java GUI authentication on AIX

2008-07-14 18:58:46
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU & Java GUI authentication on AIX
From: <briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com>
To: <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:42:10 -0500
We are looking at re-designing our Master/Media OS environment and have
considered AIX (currently HP-UX).  We have also struggled with VxSS as
have several of you - so we have continued to rely on the non-root admin
capabilities.  Our initial exposure to AIX gave us issues with the Java
GUI.  

This comes from a tech note:
"At this time NetBackup does not support LDAP with AIX.  As NetBackup is
compiled to work with AIX 5 (5.1, 5.2, 5.3), it has to be built against
the most common version.  The AIX 5.1 (which NetBackup is complied
against) and AIX 5.2 did not (by default) contain the LDAP / PAM
authentication libraries, and this is why the NetBackup Java GUI will
not work with LDAP on AIX platforms. 


If a customer is not satisfied with this feature of NetBackup and
requires NetBackup to work with LDAP and AIX, please raise an
enhancement request by visiting "

We are not allowed to give root access to the NBU admins, however SESU
is OK.  We have approximately 80+ DB admins, Operations personnel, and
tape librarians that I rely on the Java GUI to control their access
using non-root admin and the auth.conf file in /opt/openv/java.

Can anyone suggest viable options that would pass the security and audit
departments.  Is VxSS capable of this and is this my only option?

TIA

Brian

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