Administering LDAP-UX Client Services
Integrating with Trusted Mode
Integrating with Trusted Mode
This section describes features and limitations, PAM configuration changes and configuration parameter for integrating LDAP-UX with Trusted Mode.
Overview
LDAP-UX Client Services B.03.30 or later supports coexistence with Trusted Mode. This means that local-based accounts can benefit from the Trusted Mode security policies, while LDAP-based accounts benefit from the security policies offered by the LDAP server. This release of LDAP-UX also enables LDAP-based and local-based accounts to be audited on the Trusted Mode.
The coexistence of LDAP-UX and Trusted Mode supports certain security features, but also has limitations and usage requirements that you need to be aware of. For detailed information, see “Features and Limitations” on page 105.
Features and Limitations
This subsection describes features and limitations of integrating LDAP-UX with Trusted Mode.
Auditing
Integrating LDAP-UX with Trusted Mode enables accounts stored in the LDAP directory to login to a local host and to be audited on the Trusted Mode. The following describes the auditing features and limitations. To use these security features, you must enable the audit subsystem on the Trusted Mode local host:
•Auditing of both LDAP-based and local-based (/etc/passwd) accounts is possible. By default, auditing is disabled for all LDAP-based accounts. However, you can use the audusr (option -aor -d) command to alter the auditing flag for individual LDAP-based account.
•For LDAP-based accounts that are not yet known to the system, you can configure an initial setting for the auditing flag. You can configure this flag such that when an account becomes known to the