Siemens V4.0 manual Glossary Timesource, Timesource server, Trust relationship, User account

Glossary

timesource

An Advanced Server for UNIX service which identifies a server as a timesource for a domain. Other servers and clients can synchronize their clocks with the timesource. Exception: systems with UNIX cannot be synchronized.

timesource server

The server with the timesource service, which therefore serves as the timesource of the local network. The other servers and clients in the network synchronize themselves with the timesource server. An Advanced Server for UNIX server can only operate as a timesource server and not as a synchronized server.

trust relationship

Trust relationships are links between domains that enable pass-through authentication, in which a trusting domain honors the logon authentications of a trusted domain. With trust relationship, a user who has only one user account in one domain can potentially access the entire network. User accounts and global groups defined in a trusted domain can be given rights and resource permissions in a trusting domain, even though those accounts do not exist in the trusting domain’s directory database.

user account

Consists of all the information that defines a user to the Advanced Server. This includes items such as the user name and password required for the user to log on, the groups in which the user account has membership, and the rights and permissions the user has for using the system and accessing its resources. For the Advanced Server, user accounts are managed with User Manager for Domains. See also group.

user account database

The data of the user accounts and the established groups is stored in the Advanced Server for UNIX databases. See also user account and group.

user level security

A type of security which manages a user account for each user. Each user then maintains rights for specific shared resources which describe which actions each user can operate with each resource. See also password.

username

Every user receives a unique name within a local network. Users use this name to log on to a server and to identify themselves.

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