This section describes the settings and parameters used by Privilege Manager for Unix. These settings are stored on each host in the /etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/pm.settings file which contains a list of settings, one per line, in the form: settingName value1 [value2 [... valuen]].
You can modify these policy server configuration settings using the configuration script initialized by the pmsrvconfig command or you can modify the pm.settings file manually. See Configuring the primary policy server for Privilege Manager for Unix for details about running the configuration script.
If you manually change the pm.settings file, restart the pmserviced and/or pmloadcheck daemons in order for the changes to take effect.
The following table describes each of the pm.settings variables:
Defaults may differ depending on the platform you are configuring and whether you are configuring a policy server or PM Agent. Many of these settings will not have a default value.
The variables are not case sensitive.
Variable | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
certificates | boolean (YES/NO) |
Specifies whether certificates are enabled. To enable configurable certification, add the following statement to the /etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/pm.settings file on each host: certificates yes. Default: NO For more information, see Enable configurable certification. |
checksumtype | string | Specifies standard or MD5 checksum types for use with pmsum program. |
clients | list of hostnames |
Identifies hosts for which remote access functions are allowed. Only required if one policy server needs to retrieve remote information from another policy server that does not normally accept requests from it. For more information, see Central logging with Privilege Manager for Unix. |
clientverify | string |
Identifies the level of host name verification applied by the policy server host to the submit host name. The verification ensures that the incoming IP address resolves (on the primary policy server) to the same host name as presented by the submit host. Valid values are:
Default: NONE |
encryption | string |
Identifies the encryption type. You must use the same encryption setting on all hosts in your system. Valid values are:
Default: AES |
eventlogqueue | string |
Directory used by pmmasterd and pmlogsrvd where event data is temporarily queued prior to being written to the event log database. Default: /var/opt/quest/qpm4u/evcache |
EventQueueFlush | integer |
Tells pmlogadm how often to reopen the db (in minutes) flushing the data. Default: 0, in which case pmlogsrvd will keep the db open while the service is running. |
EventQueueProcessLimit | integer |
Specifies the number of cached events that will be processed at a time; this limits the memory use in pmlogadm. Default: 0, in which case pmlogsrvd will not apply a limit. |
facility | string | Sets the SYSLOG facility name to use when logging a message to the syslog file.
Valid values are:
Default: LOG_AUTH, if the platform defines LOG_AUTH; otherwise the default is 0 (zero). |
failovertimeout | integer |
Sets the timeout in seconds before a connection attempt to a policy server is abandoned and the client fails over to the next policy server in the list. This setting also affects the timeout for the client and agent. Default: 10 seconds. If omitted from pm.settings, default is 180 seconds. |
failsafecommand | string |
Sets the command to run in failsafe mode; that is, login pmksh user as root. |
fwexternalhosts | list | Identifies a list of hosts to use a different range of source ports, identified by the openreservedport and opennonreserved port settings. |
getpasswordfromrun | boolean (YES/NO) |
Determines whether authentication is performed on the policy server or the client when a getuserpasswd() or getgrouppasswd() function is called from the policy file. If set to yes, the authentication is performed on the client. This variable also affects the user information functions: getfullname(), getgroup(), getgroups(), gethome(), and getshell(). If set to yes in the policy server's pm.settings file, these functions retrieve user information from the client host. Default: NO |
handshake | boolean (YES/NO) |
Enables the encryption negotiation handshake. This allows a policy server to support clients running different levels of encryption. Default: NO |
kerberos | boolean (YES/NO) |
Enables or disables Kerberos. Default: NO |
keytab | string |
Sets the path to the Kerberos keytab file. Default: /etc/opt/quest/vas/host.keytab |
krb5rcache | string |
Sets the path to the Kerberos cache. Default: /var/tmp |
krbconf | string |
Sets the path to the Kerberos configuration file. Default: /etc/opt/quest/vas/vas.conf |
libldap | string |
Specifies the pathname to use for the LDAP library. No default value. |
localport | integer |
Sets the TCP/IP port to use for pmlocald. Default: 12346 |
lprincipal | string |
Sets the service principal name to use for the agent. Default: pmlocald |
masterport | integer |
Specifies the TCP/IP port to use for pmmasterd. Default: 12345 |
masters | list |
Identifies a list of policy server hosts to which a client can submit requests for authorization, and from which an agent can accept authorized requests. This can contain host names or netgroups. No default value. |
mprincipal | string |
Sets the Kerberos service principal name to use for the policy server. Default: host |
nicevalue | integer |
Sets the execution priority level for Privilege Manager for Unix processes. Default: 0 |
opennonreserveportrange | integer integer |
Specifies a range of non-reserved ports to use as source ports when connecting to a host in the fwexternalhosts list. No default value. |
openreserveportrange | integer integer |
Specifies a range of reserved ports to use as source ports when connecting to a host in the fwexternalhosts list. No default value. |
pmclientdenabled | boolean (YES/NO) |
Flag that enables the pmclientd daemon. |
pmclientdopts | string |
Sets the options for the pmclientd daemon. |
pmlocaldenabled | boolean (YES/NO) |
Flag that enables the pmlocald daemon. |
pmlocaldlog | string |
Sets the path for the agent error log. Default: /var/adm/pmlocald.log or /var/log/pmlocald.log depending on the platform. |
pmlocaldopts | string |
Sets the options for the pmlocald daemon. |
pmloggroup | string |
Specifies the group ownership for iolog and eventlogs. Default: pmlog |
pmlogsrvlog | string | Identifies the log used by the pmlogsrvd daemon. |
pmmasterdenabled | boolean (YES/NO) |
Flag that enables the pmmasterd daemon. Default: YES |
pmmasterdlog | string |
Sets the path for the master error log. Default: /var/adm/pmmasterd.log or /var/log/pmmasterd.log depending on the platform. |
pmmasterdopts | string |
Sets the options for the pmmasterd daemon. Default: -ar |
pmrunlog | string |
Sets the path for the client error log. Default: /var/adm/pmrun.log or /var/log/pmrun.log depending on platform. |
pmservicedlog | string |
Identifies the log used by the pmserviced daemon. Default: /var/log/pmserviced.log |
pmtunneldenabled | boolean (YES/NO) |
Flag that enables the pmtunneld daemon. |
pmtunneldopts | string |
Sets the options for the pmtunneld daemon. |
policydir | string |
Sets the directory in which to search for policy files Default: /etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/policy |
policyfile | string |
Sets the main policy filename. Default: pm.conf |
policymode | string |
Specifies the type of security policy to use, pmpolicy or Sudo. Default: sudo |
reconnectagent | boolean (YES/NO) |
Allows backwards compatibility with older agents on a policy server. Settings on policy server and agents must match. Default: NO |
reconnectclient | boolean (YES/NO) |
Allows backwards compatibility with older clients on a policy server. Settings on policy server and client must match. Default: NO |
selecthostrandom | boolean (YES/NO) |
Set to yes to attempt connections to the list of policy servers in random order. Set to no to attempt connections to the list of policy servers in the order listed in pm.settings. Default: YES |
setnonreserveportrange | integer integer |
Specifies a range of non-reserved ports to use as source ports by the client and agent.
The full range for non-reserved ports is 1024 to 65535. For more information, see Restricting port numbers for command responses. |
setreserveportrange | integer integer |
Specifies a range of reserved ports to use as source ports by the client when making a connection to the policy server.
The full range for reserved ports is 600 to 1023. For more information, see Restricting port numbers for command responses. |
setutmp | boolean (YES/NO) |
Default: YES |
shortnames | boolean (YES/NO) |
Enables or disables short names usage. Setting shortnames to yes allows the use of short (non-fully qualified) host names. If set to no, then the Privilege Manager for Unix components will attempt to resolve all host names to a fully qualified host name. Default: YES |
syslog | boolean (YES/NO) |
Set to yes to send error messages to the syslog file as well as to the Privilege Manager for Unix error log. Default: YES |
thishost | string |
Sets the client's host name to use for verification. Specifying a thishost setting causes the Privilege Manager components to bind network requests to the specified host name or IP address. If you set thishost to the underscore character ( _ ), requests bind to the host's primary host name. No default value. |
tunnelport | integer |
Sets the TCP/IP port to use for the pmtunneld daemon. Default: 12347 |
tunnelrunhosts | list | Identifies the hosts on the other side of a firewall.
No default value. For full details of how to configure your system across a firewall, see Configuring firewalls. |
validmasters |
list |
Identifies a list of policy servers that can be identified using the pmrun –m <master> option, but that will not be used when you run a normal pmrun command. This is useful for testing connections to a policy server before bringing it on line. No default value. |