Chapter 7. Administration Considerations

Chapter 7. Administration Considerations

This chapter summarizes the changes to administration procedures that administrator should be aware of. For more information,OS/390 Securitysee

Server (RACF) Security Administrator's. Guide

OS/390 OpenEdition DCE

The

interoperation of RACF with OS/390 OpenEdition DCE enables DCE

application servers

on

MVS

to map a

DCE

user(principal)identoitya RACF

user

ID. The mapping

of

a

DCE

principal

to

a RACF usercrossID -linkingis .known as

The

cross-linking

information

contained

in

the RACF database

can be use

ŸOS/390 OpenEdition DCE, for determining which MVS users are eligible

OS/390 OpenEdition DCE single signon to DCE

ŸApplication servers residing on OS/390, to determine the RACF user I clients. For more information on application servers and their use of cross-linking contained in RACF, see “OS/390 OpenEdition DCE Application Considerations” on page 39.

To support crossthe -linkingandsingle signon to DCEfeatures, RACF provides:

Ÿ The DCE segment for the RACF user profile

ŸThe DCEUUIDS general resource class

The

DCE segment,

defined

to the

RACF

user profile,

associates

a

DCE

with

the

RACF

user profile. See Figure 17

on

page 20

for

the

contents

segment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The

DCEUUIDS

general

resource

class

contains

the cross-linking informatio

each

RACF/DCE

user. Profiles defined to the

RACF DCEUUIDS

class

associ

DCE principal

with

a

RACF

user

ID

on

a particular system

that

is

par

cell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The

security

administrator must work with the DCE administrator

to

def

profiles

to

supportcrossthe-linking andsingle

signon

to

DCEfeatures.

 

 

 

Cross-Linking Between RACF Users

 

and

DCE

Principals

 

 

 

Profiles in the DCEUUIDS class establish a

cross-link between a DCE p

UUID and a RACF user ID. Two OpenEdition DCE utilities administer DCE

information

in

the

RACF

database and create the initial cross-link info

between the

RACF

user

profile and the DCE principal registry:

mvsimpt

is

a

two-pass

utility

that

creates

DCE principal entries in t

 

registry for

 

the

set of

RACF

users

chosen to be cross-linked

 

the output from the RACF database unload utility. The unloaded

 

database

is

 

sorted

by the administrator according to RACF u

 

a RACF DCE segment and

filtered by the utility according to

 

entries

from

previous

mvsimpt

and mvsexpt processing.

mvsexpt

is

a

two-pass

utility that populates a RACF database with in

 

a

set

of

DCE

principals. It creates and updates the RACF DC

 

segment

for

each

DCE

principal

being

cross-linked with the RACF

 Copyright IBM Corp. 1994,

1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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