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One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions 7.5 - Administration Guide

Preface Introduction The concepts of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
The philosophy of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Policies Credential Stores Plugin framework Indexing Supported protocols and client applications Modes of operation Connecting to a server through One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Archive and backup concepts Maximizing the scope of auditing IPv6 in One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) SSH host keys Authenticating clients using public-key authentication in SSH The gateway authentication process Four-eyes authorization Network interfaces High Availability support in One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Versions and releases of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Accessing and configuring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
Cloud deployment considerations The Welcome Wizard and the first login Basic settings
Supported web browsers The structure of the web interface Network settings Configuring date and time System logging, SNMP and e-mail alerts Configuring system monitoring on SPS Data and configuration backups Archiving Cleaning up audit data Using plugins Forwarding data to third-party systems Starling integration
User management and access control
Login settings Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) users locally Setting password policies for local users Managing local user groups Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) users from an LDAP database Authenticating users to a RADIUS server Authenticating users with X.509 certificates Authenticating users with SAML2 Managing user rights and usergroups Creating rules for restricting access to search audit data Displaying the privileges of users and user groups Listing and searching configuration changes
Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
Controlling One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS): reboot, shutdown Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) clusters Managing a High Availability One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) cluster Upgrading One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Managing the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) license Accessing the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) console Sealed mode Out-of-band management of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Managing the certificates used on One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
General connection settings HTTP-specific settings ICA-specific settings MSSQL-specific settings RDP-specific settings SSH-specific settings Using Sudo with SPS Telnet-specific settings VMware Horizon View connections VNC-specific settings Indexing audit trails Using the Search interface Advanced authentication and authorization techniques Reports The One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) REST API One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) scenarios Troubleshooting One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
Network troubleshooting Gathering data about system problems Viewing logs on One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Changing log verbosity level of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Collecting logs and system information for error reporting Collecting logs and system information of the boot process for error reporting Support hotfixes Status history and statistics Troubleshooting a One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) cluster Understanding One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) RAID status Restoring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) configuration and data VNC is not working with TLS Configuring the IPMI from the BIOS after losing IPMI password Incomplete TSA response received Using UPN usernames in audited SSH connections
Using SPS with SPP Configuring external devices Using SCP with agent-forwarding Security checklist for configuring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Jumplists for in-product help Configuring SPS to use an LDAP backend Glossary

Starting and restarting the external-indexer service when using a custom password for PKCS#11 PIN encryption

When you choose to encrypt the PKCS#11 PIN(s) using a custom password, on starting or restarting the external-indexer service, you are asked to enter your password using a special tool.

To provide your password using the required tool

  1. Start the external-indexer service:

    systemctl start external-indexer

  2. The external-indexer service prompts you to provide a password using the systemd-ask-password tool. Issue:

    systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

  3. Provide the password at the prompt. You can use multiple agents to enter the password.

  4. Once the external indexer(s) have been started or restarted, make sure that all the indexers have started up successfully.

    For example, on CentOS 7, you can use:

    systemctl status external-indexer

Configuring SoftHSM

SoftHSM is the software implementation of an HSM. It can be installed from the EPEL repository. The configuration of SoftHSM can be found at /etc/softhsm2.conf (CentOS 7), or /etc/softhsm.conf (CentOS 6).

The following describes how to configure SoftHSM.

NOTE: Depending on the exact SoftHSM solution that you are using, the steps described here may slightly differ.

NOTE: The following steps assume that:

  • You are on the host operating system.

  • The external indexer has been installed.

Prerequisites

The indexer user/group has the rights to read the data directory of SoftHSM and its contents, which defaults to /var/lib/softhsm.

To configure SoftHSM

  1. Initialize directories for SoftHSM.

    mkdir -p /var/lib/softhsm
chgrp -R indexer /var/lib/softhsm

  2. Configure slots for softhsm1 (CentOS 6). For softhsm2 (CentOS 7), you can skip this step.

    cat /etc/softhsm.conf
0:/var/lib/softhsm/slot0.db
1:/var/lib/softhsm/slot1.db

  3. Initialize slot 0 (softhsm1).

    softhsm --init-token --slot 0 --label "<your-slot-label>" –-<so-pin> topsecret --pin <your-SoftHSM-PIN>

  4. Initialize a new slot (softhsm2) and get the slot ID:

    softhsm2-util --init-token --free --label "<your-slot-label>" --<so-pin> topsecret --pin <your-SoftHSM-PIN>
SLOT_ID=$(softhsm2-util --show-slots | grep -B 15 "<your-slot-label>" | grep "Slot [0-9]" | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2)

  5. Import your keys. Your keys must be in the .der format.

    For softhsm1, use:

    pkcs11-tool --module /usr/lib/softhsm/libsofthsm.so -l -y privkey --slot 0 -w key.der -d 001 -a <your-key-label> --pin <your-SoftHSM-PIN>

    For softhsm2, use:

    pkcs11-tool --module /usr/lib/softhsm/libsofthsm2.so -l -y privkey --slot 0 -w key.der -d 001 -a <your-key-label> --pin <your-SoftHSM-PIN>

  6. Make sure that the indexer user/group has execute right to the token directory and read right to the token files below the /var/lib/softhsm/tokens/ directory.

  7. Test your SoftHSM configuration with the indexer.

    source /etc/indexer/external-indexer.env
indexerworker -l -v 7 --pkcs11-lib "<your-SoftHSM-library>" --pkcs11-slot-id 0 --pkcs11-pin "<your-SoftHSM-PIN>"

  8. Encrypt the PKCS#11 PIN(s). For detailed instructions, see Encrypting a PKCS#11 PIN.

  9. Update the "pkcs11" object in the /etc/indexer/indexerworker.cfg file.

    ...
   "pkcs11": {
       "slots": [
         {
           "library": "/usr/lib/softhsm/libsofthsm.so",
           "slot_id": 0,
           "pin": "<your-encrypted-PIN>"
         }
       ]
   }
...

Configuring AWS CloudHSM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudHSM provides hardware security modules in the AWS Cloud.

The following describes how to configure CloudHSM.

NOTE: The following steps assume that:

  • You have set up your AWS CloudHSM, that is, you have created a user for the indexer, imported/generated keys, and so on.

    For detailed information on AWS CloudHSM, see the AWS CloudHSM User Guide.

  • The CloudHSM PKCS#11 library is installed.

  • The external indexer has been installed.

To configure CloudHSM

  1. Test your environment as described in Setting up and testing the environment.

    Note that you will need to provide your CloudHSM PIN in the following format:

    "<your-CloudHSM-username:your-CloudHSM-PIN>"

  2. Encrypt the PKCS#11 PIN(s). For detailed instructions, see Encrypting a PKCS#11 PIN.

  3. Update the "pkcs11" object in the /etc/indexer/indexerworker.cfg file.

    ...
   "pkcs11": {
       "custom_password": true
       "slots": [
         {
           "library": "/opt/cloudhsm/lib/libcloudhsm_pkcs11.so",
           "slot_id": 1,
           "pin": "<your-encrypted-PIN>"
         }
       ]
   }
...

Configuring a smart card

NOTE: Using the external indexer with a smart card is currently an experimental feature only.

To configure a smart card

  1. Install OpenSC, for example, from the EPEL repository of CentOS.

  2. Ensure that the PC/SC Smart Card Daemon (pcscd) service is running:

    • On CentOS 6:

      service pcscd start

    • On CentOS 7:

      systemctl enable pcscd
systemctl start pcscd

      Alternatively, you can use:

      systemctl enable pcscd.socket
systemctl start pcscd.socket

      This ensures that the pcscd service will not start at system startup, it will only start when there is an attempt (for example, by the indexerworker) to connect to it.

  3. Test your environment as described in Setting up and testing the environment.

  4. Encrypt the PKCS#11 PIN(s). For detailed instructions, see the Encrypting a PKCS#11 PIN.

  5. Update the "pkcs11" object in the /etc/indexer/indexerworker.cfg file, for example:

    ... 
   "pkcs11": { 
       "slots": [ 
         { 
           "library": "/usr/lib64/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.so", 
           "slot_id": 1, 
           "pin": "encrypted_pin" 
         } 
       ] 
   } 
...
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