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Privilege Manager for Unix

Securely Manage and Control Unix Root Access

Quest Privilege Manager for Unix enhances security by protecting the full power of root access from potential misuse or abuse through fine-grained, policy-based control. Privilege Manager helps you to define a security policy that stipulates who has access to which root function, as well as when and where individuals can perform those functions. It controls access to existing programs as well as any purpose-built utilities used for common system administration tasks. With Privilege Manager, you don’t need to worry about someone—whether inadvertently or maliciously—deleting critical files, modifying file permissions or databases, reformatting disks or damaging Unix systems in more subtle ways.

By enabling administrators to define fine-grained security policies, delegate common management tasks and log all Unix root activities down to the keystroke level, Privilege Manager for Unix reduces security risks, increases IT productivity and enables organizations to achieve and sustain compliance in a cost-effective manner.

Features

  • Safe Root Partitioning - Privilege Manager helps you partition system administration tasks without compromising the security of the root account. You can define an elaborate policy that determines whether and when any user requests are accepted or rejected. The feature ensures users perform only the root actions for which they are responsible and authorized.
  • Indelible Audit Trail - Privilege Manager records all activities performed with elevated access, even down to the keystroke level, if required. This power to accurately log root and other account activities in a controlled environment provides a secure system administration policy with an indelible audit trail.

  • Encryption, Authentication and Program Controls - Privilege Manager for Unix encrypts its own network traffic to prevent unauthorized access to highly sensitive information. Security is further enhanced by restricting unauthorized or destructive programs and data maintained, stored and/or executed on Unix systems.
  • Central Management of Heterogeneous Networks - Privilege Manager for Unix provides full functionality for heterogeneous organizations using a single, uniform manager interface to deliver configuration and management.
  • Robust Multi-platform Support - Privilege Manager for Unix supports a wide range of Unix and Linux platforms including IBM AIX,HP-UX, Sun, SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux, Tru64, SGI and more.

Sys Reqs

System Requirements:

Before installing Privilege Manager for UNIX 5.6, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

AIX 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.x
HP-UX 11i v2, v3
HP-UX Itanium 11i v2, v3 
Solaris-SPARC 8, 9 and 10
Solaris-Intel 8 and 10
Red Hat Linux 7 - 9 
Red Hat Enterprise Server v4 AS/ES/WS 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5, v6 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5, v6 (64 bit)
SuSE Enterprise Server v10, v11
SuSE Enterprise Server v10, v11 (64 bit)
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Intel x86 
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 x86 64 
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 x86 64 
Oracle VM x86 64
Debian Linux v5, v6
Debian Linux v5, v6 (64 bit)
Ubuntu Linux v8, v10
Ubuntu Linux v8, v10 (64 bit)
Linux Power PC 64 SuSE Enterprise Server v10
Linux zSeries SuSE Enterprise Server v8
Additional SoftwareSSH Server and Client software (including ssh-keyscan binary). Privilege Manager requires ssh client and server software to be installed and configured on all policy server hosts, and ssh client software to be installed on all hosts using the Privilege Manager Sudo plugins

Privilege Manager for UNIX uses TCP/IP to communicate with networked computers, so it is essential that TCP/IP is correctly configured before installing Privilege Manager for UNIX.

 

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  • US English

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