When upgrading to or installing Safeguard Authentication Services 4.x, you can choose not to configure Active Directory for Safeguard Authentication Services and run your Safeguard Authentication Services client agent in Version 3 Compatibility Mode. While this prevents you from running the Control Center and accessing its many features and tools, you can join a host to an Active Directory domain when operating in Version 3 Compatibility Mode.
Note: When you run the join command without first creating a One Identity Application Configuration, Safeguard Authentication Services displays a warning.
Without the Safeguard Authentication Services application configuration the following information is stored locally:
Because Version 3 Compatibility Mode does not allow you run the Control Center and access its many features and tools, One Identity recommends that you create the application configuration so you can utilize full Safeguard Authentication Services functionality.
There are two ways to create the application configuration:
Note: To install Safeguard Authentication Services on Unix, Linux, or macOS, you must have root access rights.
NOTE: With Safeguard Authentication Services 4.2 and later, Linux platforms require glibc 2.4 (or later).
The following table provides a list of supported Unix and Linux platforms for Safeguard Authentication Services.
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Platform |
Version |
Architecture |
|---|---|---|
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Amazon Linux AMI |
|
x86_64 |
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Apple macOS |
10.13 or later |
x86_64 |
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CentOS Linux |
5, 6, 7, 8 |
Current Linux architectures: s390, s390x, PPC64, PPC64le, ia64, x86, x86_64, AARCH64 |
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Debian |
x86_64, x86, AARCH64 | |
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Fedora Linux |
x86_64, x86, AARCH64 | |
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FreeBSD |
10.x, 11.x, 12.x |
x32, x64 |
|
HP-UX |
11.31 |
PA, IA-64 |
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IBM AIX |
7.1, 7.2 |
Power 4+ |
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OpenSuSE |
x86_64, x86, AARCH64 | |
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Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) |
5, 6, 7, 8 |
Current Linux architectures: s390, s390x, PPC64, PPC64le, ia64, x86, x86_64, AARCH64 |
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Oracle Solaris |
10 8/11 (Update 10), 11.x |
SPARC, x64 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) |
5, 6, 7, 8 |
Current Linux architectures: s390, s390x, PPC64, PPC64le, ia64, x86, x86_64, AARCH64 |
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SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)/Workstation |
11, 12, 15 |
Current Linux architectures: s390, s390x, PPC64, PPC64le, ia64, x86, x86_64, AARCH64 |
|
Ubuntu |
x86_64, x86, AARCH64 |
Note: For maximum security and performance, before you begin the installation, make sure that you have the latest patches for your operating system version. One Identity recommends that you run the Preflight utility to check for supported operating systems and correct operating system patches.
For more information, see Running Preflight in the Safeguard Authentication Services Installation Guide.
Safeguard Authentication Services includes the following Unix components.
| Unix component | Description |
|---|---|
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vasd |
The Safeguard Authentication Services agent background process that manages the persistent cache of Active Directory information used by the other Safeguard Authentication Services components. vasd is installed as a system service. You can start and stop vasd using the standard service start/stop mechanism for your platform. vasd is installed by the vasclnt package. |
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vastool |
The Safeguard Authentication Services command line administration utility that allows you to join a Unix host to an Active Directory Domain; access and modify information about users, groups, and computers in Active Directory; and configure the Safeguard Authentication Services components. vastool is installed at /opt/quest/bin/vastool. vastool is installed by the vasclnt package. |
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vgptool |
A command line utility that allows you to manage the application of Group Policy settings to Safeguard Authentication Services clients. vgptool is installed at /opt/quest/bin/vgptool. vgptool is installed by the vasgp package. |
|
oat (Ownership Alignment Tool) |
A command line utility that allows you to modify file ownership on local Unix hosts to match user accounts in Active Directory. oat is installed at /opt/quest/libexec/oat/oat. oat is installed by the vasclnt package. |
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LDAP proxy |
A background process that secures the authentication channel for applications using LDAP bind to authenticate users without introducing the overhead of configuring secure LDAP (LDAPS). The LDAP proxy is installed by the vasproxy package. |
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NIS proxy |
A background process that acts as a NIS server which can provide backwards compatibility with existing NIS infrastructure. The NIS proxy is installed by the vasyp package. |
|
SDK package |
The vasdev package, the Safeguard Authentication Services programming API. |
The following table details the permissions required for full Safeguard Authentication Services functionality.
| Function | Active Directory permissions | Local client permissions |
|---|---|---|
| Safeguard Authentication Services Application Configuration: creation | Location in Active Directory with Create Container Object rights | N/A |
Safeguard Authentication Services Application Configuration: changes
|
Update permission to the containers created above (no particular permissions if you are the one who created it) | N/A |
| Schema optimization | Schema Administrator rights | N/A |
| Display Specifier Registration | Enterprise Administrator rights | N/A |
| Editing Users | Administrator rights | N/A |
|
Create any group policy objects |
Group Policy Creator Owners rights |
N/A |
| RFC 2307 NIS Import Map Wizard | Location in Active Directory with Create Container Object rights (you create containers for each NIS map) | N/A |
| Unix Account Import Wizard | Administrator rights (you are creating new accounts) | N/A |
| Logging Options | Write permissions to the file system folder where you want to create the logs | N/A |
| vasd daemon |
The client computer object is expected to have read access to user and group attributes, which is the default. In order for Safeguard Authentication Services to update the host object operating system attributes automatically, set the following rights for "SELF" on the client computer object: Write Operating System, Write operatingSystemHotfix, and Write operatingSystemServicePack. |
vasd must run as root |
| QAS/VAS PAM module | N/A (updated by means of vasd) | Any local user |
| QAS/VAS NSS module
vastool nss |
N/A (updated by means of vasd) | Any local user |
| vastool command-line tool | Depends on which vastool command is run | Any local user for most commands |
|
vastool join vastool unjoin |
Computer creation or deletion permissions in the desired container | root |
|
vastool configure vastool unconfigure |
N/A | root |
|
vastool search vastool attrs |
Read permission for the desired objects (regular Active Directory user) | Any local user |
| vastool setattrs | Write permissions for the desired object | Any local user |
| vastool cache | N/A | Run as root if you want all tables including authcache |
| vastool create | Permissions to create new users, groups, and computers as specified | Any local user; root needed to create a new local computer |
| vastool delete | Permissions to delete existing users, groups, or computers as specified; permissions to remove the keytab entry for the host object created (root or write permissions in the directory and the file) | Any local user |
| vastool flush | The client computer object is expected to have read access to user and group attributes, which should be the default | root |
|
vastool group add vastool group del |
Permission to modify group membership | Any local user |
| vastool group hasmember | Read permission for the desired objects (regular Active Directory user) | Any local user |
| vastool info { site | domain | domain -n | forest-root | forest-root -dn | server | acl } | N/A | Any local user |
| vastool info { id | domains | domains -dn | adsecurity | toconf } | Read permission for the desired objects (regular Active Directory user) | Any local user |
|
vastool isvas vastool inspect vastool license |
N/A | Any local user |
|
vastool kinit vastool klist vastool kdestroy |
Local client needs permissions to modify the keytab specified; default is the computer object, which is root. | Any local user |
| vastool ktutil | N/A | root if you are using the default host.keytab file |
| vastool list (with -l option) | Read permission for the desired objects (regular Active Directory user) | Any local user |
| vastool load | Permissions to create users and groups in the desired container | Any local user |
|
vastool merge vastool unmerge |
N/A | root |
| vastool passwd | Regular Active Directory user | Any local user |
| vastool passwd <AD user> | Active Directory user with password reset permission | Any local user |
|
vastool schema list vastool schema detect |
Regular Active Directory user | Any local user |
| vastool schema cache | Regular Active Directory user | root (to modify the local cache file) |
| vastool service list | Regular Active Directory user | Any local user |
| vastool service { create | delete } | Active Directory user with permission to create/delete service principals in desired container | N/A |
| vastool smartcard | N/A | root |
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vastool starling {list | detect [-d domain] | cache | check} |
Regular Active Directory user |
Any local user (for list, detect, check) root (for cache) |
| vastool status | N/A | root |
| vastool timesync | N/A | root, if you only query the time from AD, you can run as any local user |
| vastool user { enable | disable } | Modify permissions on the AD Object | Any local user |
| vastool user { checkaccess | checkconflict } | N/A | Any local user |
| vastool user checklogin | Access to Active Directory users password | Any local user |
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