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Privilege Manager for Unix 7.1 - Administration Guide

Introducing Privilege Manager for Unix Planning Deployment Installation and Configuration Upgrade Privilege Manager for Unix System Administration Managing Security Policy The Privilege Manager for Unix Security Policy Advanced Privilege Manager for Unix Configuration Administering Log and Keystroke Files InTrust Plug-in for Privilege Manager for Unix Troubleshooting Privilege Manager for Unix Policy File Components Privilege Manager for Unix Variables
Variable names Variable scope Global input variables Global output variables Global event log variables PM settings variables
Privilege Manager for Unix Flow Control Statements Privilege Manager for Unix Built-in Functions and Procedures
Environment functions Hash table functions Input and output functions LDAP functions LDAP API example List functions Miscellaneous functions Password functions Remote access functions String functions User information functions Authentication Services functions
Privilege Manager for Unix programs Installation Packages

Installation Packages

Privilege Manager for Unix is comprised of the following packages:

  • Privilege Manager for Unix product

    Contains the Privilege Manager for Unix Policy Server and PM Agent components and uses the native packaging system for each platform (RPM, PKG, etc).

  • Safeguard for Sudo product

    Contains the Safeguard Policy Server and Sudo Plugin components and uses the native packaging system for each platform (RPM, PKG, etc).

  • Preflight Binary

    This is a stand-alone native binary for each platform (not zipped, tarred or packaged). This binary exists stand-alone on the ISO to make it available for use prior to installing software. It does not change any Privilege Manager for Unix configuration on the host.

For more information, see Downloading Privilege Manager for Unix software packages.

Package locations

Privilege Manager for Unix is provided in native platform install packages, which include binary files, online man pages, installation files, and configuration file examples.

The install packages are located in the zip archive in two directories called:

  • /server
  • /agent
  • /sudo_plugin

where <platform> is the name of the platform on which you are running Privilege Manager for Unix.

There are three different packages:

  • qpm-agent package, which contains only the client (pmrun) and agent (pmlocald) components for Privilege Manager for Unix.
  • qpm-server package, which contains the server (pmmasterd), the client (pmrun) and agent (pmlocald), and the Sudo Plugin (qpm4u_plugin.so) components for Privilege Manager for Unix.
  • qpm-plugin package, which contains the offline policy cache server (pmmasterd), the Sudo Plugin (qpm4u_plugin.so) components for Privilege Manager for Unix.

The Solaris server and agent packages have filenames that start with QSFTpmsrv and QSFTpmagt, respectively.

Once installed, the packaged files are placed in an installation directory under /opt/quest which contains subdirectories and files.

The platform directories contain the Privilege Manager for Unix installer packages for each platform supported by Privilege Manager for Unix.

Table 92: Privilege Manager kit directories
Platform Architecture

aix71-rs6k

IBM®AIX 7.1, 7.2

freebsd-x86_64

FreeBSD on x86 64-bit architecture

hpux-hppa11 HP-UX 11.31 PA-RISC architecture
hpux11-ia64 HP-UX 11.31 Itanium architecture

linux-aarch64

Linux on ARM 64-bit architecture

linux-ia64

Linux on Itanium architecture

linux-intel Linux x86
linux-ppc64 Linux on ppc little endian 64-bit architecture

linux-ppc64le

Linux on ppc little endian 64-bit architecture

linux-s390 Linux s390
linux-x86_64 Linux on x86 64-bit architecture

macos-x86_64

macOS on x86 64-bit architecture

Solaris-intel Solaris Intel architecture

Solaris-sparc

SolarisSPARC® architecture

Installed files and directories

The following table lists files and directories installed on your system.

Table 93: Installed files and directories
Directories and files Description Created by
/opt/quest/qpm4u Install directory containing readme, default trial license file, examples directory, templates, etc. INSTALL
/etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/pm.settings Configuration file for Privilege Manager for Unix component communications. CONFIG
/etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/policy/pm.conf Default production policy file when using the pmpolicy policy type. CONFIG
/etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/policies Default production policy framework directory when using the pmpolicy type. CONFIG
/etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/policies/sudoers Default production policy file for the sudo policy type. CONFIG
/opt/quest/bin

Install directory containing the binaries for user programs, such as pmrun, pmksh and pmvi.

These user programs only apply to Privilege Manager for Unix.

 CONFIG
/opt/quest/sbin Install directory containing the binaries for admin programs, such as pmlog and pmreplay. INSTALL
/opt/quest/lib Install directory for shared libraries INSTALL
/opt/quest/libexec Install directory for dynamically loaded objects. INSTALL
/opt/quest/man This directory contains all the man pages for Privilege Manager for Unix daemons and programs. INSTALL
/opt/quest/qpm4u/examples

This directory contains useful programs, scripts, or examples which show how to use Privilege Manager for Unix. It also contains a sample configuration file which you can use as a template for implementing your own policies.

These scripts and examples only apply to Privilege Manager for Unix.

 INSTALL
/opt/quest/qpm4u/license This file contains the license information (policy server only). For information about updating license information, see pmlicense. INSTALL
/opt/quest/qpm4u/qpm4u_eula.txt This file contains the End User License Agreement for the Privilege Manager for Unix product. INSTALL
/opt/quest/qpm4u/README. <architecture> This file contains the latest information about your version of Privilege Manager for Unix. INSTALL
/var/opt/quest/qpm4u/iolog This directory contains the keystroke logs. EVENTDATA

/var/opt/quest/qpm4u/pmevents.db

This file contains the event logs.

EVENTDATA

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