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Safeguard for Sudo 7.2 - Administration Guide

Introducing Safeguard for Sudo Planning Deployment Installation and Configuration Upgrade Safeguard for Sudo System Administration Managing Security Policy Administering Log and Keystroke Files Supported sudo plugins Troubleshooting Safeguard Variables Safeguard programs Installation Packages Unsupported Sudo Options Safeguard for Sudo Policy Evaluation

Package locations

Safeguard 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 Safeguard.

There are three different packages:

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

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 Safeguard installer packages for each platform supported by Safeguard.

Table 49: 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 50: 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 Safeguard 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 Safeguard for Sudo.

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 Safeguard daemons and programs. INSTALL
/opt/quest/qpm4u/examples

This directory contains useful programs, scripts, or examples which show how to use Safeguard for Sudo. 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 Safeguard for Sudo.

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 Safeguard product. INSTALL
/opt/quest/qpm4u/README. <architecture> This file contains the latest information about your version of Safeguard. 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

Unsupported Sudo Options

Sudo Plugin supports all sudo command options except those listed in the following tables:

Unsupported command line sudo options

Table 51: Unsupported command line sudo options
Sudo option Description
-a <type> Uses the specified authentication type.
-c <class> Runs the specified command with resources limited by the specified login class.
-ll Lists allowed commands in long format.
-r <role>

Causes security context to have specified role.

SELinux RBAC is not supported.

-t <type>

Causes security context to have specified type.

SELinux RBAC is not supported.

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