What's new for Safeguard Authentication Services

running vastool status reports the following: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E Example: /opt/quest/bin/vastool status...

Depending on syslog logging levels, this could be seen after upgrading to SAS 5.1.3: <time> vasd[<pid>]: Run: Reloaded the memory caches in X...

SAS Version 5.1.2 on HPUX does not cache all groups. The vasd daemon segfaults: Signal 11 is SIGSEGV, segmentation fault A backtrace of the...

The version of pamdefender with each release will not be installed on an update due to revision numbers not incrementing. For example: 5.0.5...

Red Hat has removed the Network Information Service (NIS) components from RHEL 9. Can NIS automounts still be managed by Safeguard Authentication...

What QAS powershell commands can be done?

For various reasons a keytab may be required for use against an existing service account in Active Directory. To do this manually can be...

FAILURE: 505 Unrecognized auth result/error <15><ERROR: VAS_ERR_CRED_NEEDED: Credential needed    Unable to find a keytab entry in /etc/opt/quest...

The vas_snapshot.sh script is a tool utilized by support to collect a large amount of information about Authentication Services and the environment...

How to setup access control

Can the "Allow Logon Locally" and "Deny Logon Locally" settings be used to control access to client systems?

The vasd process hangs impacting the server.  The following messages were seen in syslog: "sending kill signal" and "Received 22 getting the request" 

What needs to be done on the client machine after changing the windows password policy? Changing the password policy to include a larger amount of...

How can we set the password-change-interval to less than one day? 

If you try to install Authentication Services product in unattended mode, the installation will fail. Example: sysadm@epsuse12:/mnt/idm2/SAS...

How to modify group policy from Unix client?