Safeguard Authentication Services 5.1.2

Prior to installing Safeguard Authentication Services, ensure your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements for your platform. Safeguard Authentication Services consists of Windows management tools and Unix client agent components.

Windows and cloud requirements

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The following are the minimum requirements for using Safeguard Authentication Services in your environment.

Table 1: Authentication Services requirements
System requirements
Supported Windows Platforms	Prerequisite Windows software If the following prerequisite is missing, the Safeguard Authentication Services installer suspends the installation process to allow you to download the required component. It then continues the install: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 You can install Safeguard Authentication Services on 64-bit editions of the following configurations: Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022 Windows 10 Windows 11 NOTE: Due to tightened security, when running Safeguard Authentication Services Control Center on Windows 2008 R2 (or later) operating system, functioning as a domain controller, the process must be elevated or you must add authenticated users to the Distributed COM Users group on the computer. As a best practice, One Identity does not recommend that you install or run the Safeguard Authentication Services Windows components on Active Directory domain controllers. The recommended configuration is to install the Safeguard Authentication Services Windows components on an administrative workstation.
Supported cloud services	AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (also called AWS Managed Microsoft AD) Azure Active Directory Domain Services Google Cloud Platform Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory

Windows components

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Safeguard Authentication Services includes the following Windows components.

Table 2: Windows components
Windows component	Description
Safeguard Authentication Services Control Center	A single console for access to all of the tools and configuration settings for Safeguard Authentication Services.
Active Directory Users and Computers MMC Snapin Extensions	Unix management extensions for Active Directory users and groups.
Group Policy Management Editor MMC Snapin Extensions	Group Policy extensions for management of Unix, Linux, and macOS.
RFC2307 NIS Map Editor MMC Snapin	Provides the ability to manage NIS data in Active Directory.
NIS Map Import Wizard	Imports NIS data into Active Directory.
Unix Account Import Wizard	Imports Unix identity data into Active Directory.
Safeguard Authentication Services PowerShell cmdlets	Provides the ability to script Unix management tasks.
Documentation	Full product documentation and online help.

Windows permissions

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To install Safeguard Authentication Services on Windows, you must have:

Local administrator rights.
Rights to create and delete all child objects in the container where you will install the configuration settings (first-time only).

Authenticated Users must have rights to read cn, displayName, description, and whenCreated attributes for container objects in the application configuration location. To change Active Directory configuration settings, Administrators must have rights to Create Child Object (container) and Write Attribute for cn, displayName, description, and showInAdvancedViewOnly in the application configuration location.

Table 3: Required Windows permissions
Rights required	For user	Object class	Attributes
Create Child Object	Safeguard Authentication Services Administrators Only	Container
Delete Child Object	Safeguard Authentication Services Administrators Only	Container
Delete Child Object	Safeguard Authentication Services Administrators Only	Container
Write Attribute	Safeguard Authentication Services Administrators Only	Container	cn, displayName, description, showInAdvancedViewOnly
Read Attribute	Authenticated Users	Container	cn, displayName, description, whenCreated

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