1. Overview
1.1 Quest ESSO Concepts
1.2 Quest ESSO Controllers
1.3 A Multi-Domain Architecture
1.4 General Ergonomic Design
2 Authenticating to Quest ESSO Console and Managing Protection Modes
2.1 Starting/Stopping Quest ESSO Console
3 Searching the Directory Tree
4 Managing Administrators
2.1.1 Starting Quest ESSO Console
2.2 Managing Protection Modes
2.1.1.1 Starting Quest ESSO Console in Hardware Protection Mode
2.1.1.2 Starting Quest ESSO Console in Software Protection Mode
2.1.2 Stopping Quest ESSO Console
4.1 Administration Modes - Presentation
5 Managing Security Profiles
4.1.1 The Classic Administration Mode
4.1.2 The Advanced Administration Mode
4.1.3 Administration Role Inheritance
4.2 Delegating Administration Roles
4.3 Managing Administration Profiles
4.4 Transferring an Administration Role
4.5 Deleting an Administration Role
4.6 Displaying your Administration Role
4.7 Modifying the Parent Administrator
4.8 Adding/Removing Primary Administrators
5.1 Managing Time Slices
6 Managing Directory Objects
5.1.1 Creating/Modifying Time Slices
5.1.2 Configuring Time Slices
5.1.3 Displaying Timeslice Object Event Logs
5.1.4 Renaming Timeslice Objects
5.1.5 Deleting Timeslice Objects
5.2 Managing Password Format Control Policies
5.2.1 Creating/Modifying Password Format Control Policies
5.2.2 Configuring Password Format Control Policy
5.2.3 Displaying Password Format Control Policy Event Logs
5.2.4 Renaming Password Format Control Policies
5.2.5 Deleting Password Format Control Policies
5.3 Managing User Security Profiles
5.3.1 Creating/Modifying User Security Profiles
5.3.2 Configuring User Security Profiles
5.4 Managing Access Point Security Profiles
5.3.2.1 Authentication Tab
5.3.2.2 Security Tab
5.3.2.3 Unlocking Tab (Fast User Switching Feature)
5.3.2.4 Self Service Password Request Tab
5.3.2.5 Biometrics Tab
5.3.2.6 Session Delegation Tab
5.3.2.7 Audit Tab
5.3.2.8 OTP Tab
5.3.3 Displaying User Security Profile Event Logs
5.3.4 Renaming User Security Profiles
5.3.5 Deleting User Security Profiles
5.4.1 Creating/Modifying Access Point Security Profiles
5.4.2 Configuring Access Point Security Profiles
5.5 Managing Application Security Profiles
5.4.2.1 Security Services Tab
5.4.2.2 Advanced Login Tab
5.4.2.3 QESSO SSOWatch Tab
5.4.2.4 Multi-User Desktop Tab
5.4.2.5 Biometrics Tab
5.4.2.6 Self Service Password Request Tab
5.4.2.7 Active RFID Tab
5.4.2.8 Audit Tab
5.4.3 Displaying Access Point Security Profile Event Logs
5.4.4 Renaming Access Point Security Profiles
5.4.5 Deleting Access Point Security Profiles
5.5.1 Managing Password Generation Policies
5.6 Defining Security Profiles Default Values
5.7 Managing User and Access Point Security Profiles Priorities
5.5.1.1 Creating/Modifying Password Generation Policies
5.5.1.2 Configuring the Password Generation Policy
5.5.1.3 Displaying Password Generation Policy Event Logs
5.5.1.4 Renaming Password Generation Policies
5.5.1.5 Deleting Password Generation Policies
5.5.2 Creating/Modifying Application Security Profiles
5.5.3 Configuring Application Security Profiles
5.5.3.1 General Tab
5.5.3.2 Account Tab
5.5.3.3 Authentication Method Tab
5.5.3.4 Delegation Tab
5.5.3.5 IP Address Constraints Tab
5.5.4 Displaying Application Security Profile Event Logs
5.5.5 Renaming Application Security Profiles
5.5.6 Deleting Application Security Profiles
6.1 Managing Applications
7 Importing/Exporting Security Profiles and Directory Objects
8 Managing Smart Cards
6.1.1 Creating an Application
6.2 Managing Users
6.1.1.1 Creating an Application without Using a Template
6.1.1.2 Creating an Application Using Templates
6.1.2 Defining the General Properties of an Application
6.1.3 Creating the Account Properties of an Application
6.1.4 Defining the Single Sign-On Properties of an Application
6.1.5 Defining External Names
6.1.6 Assigning Users to an Application
6.1.7 Sharing the Administration of an Application
6.1.8 Generating/Importing Accounts for an Application
6.1.9 Assigning Access Points to an Application
6.1.10 Displaying Accounts Associated with the Application
6.1.11 Displaying Application Event Logs
6.1.12 Displaying/Modifying Application Information
6.1.13 Renaming Applications
6.1.14 Deleting Applications
6.2.1 Displaying User General Information
6.2.2 Defining User Connection Parameters
6.3 Managing Access Points
6.2.2.1 Suspending or Limiting Temporarily a User Access
6.2.2.2 Displaying User Authentication Information and Administering Roaming Sessions
6.2.2.3 Predefine a New User's Primary Password
6.2.2.4 Managing User SSPR
6.2.2.5 Defining an Audit Identifier
6.2.2.6 Creating a Welcome Message
6.2.3 Assigning a User Security Profile to a User
6.2.4 Declaring a User as an Administrator
6.2.5 Assigning/Forbidding Access Points to a User
6.2.6 Managing User Accounts
6.2.7 Sending SSO Account Passwords to Users
6.2.8 Defining Additional Security Policy Parameters for Groups of Users
6.2.9 Managing User Smart Cards
6.2.11 Displaying and Deleting User Biometric Data
6.2.12 Assigning Applications to a User
6.2.13 Displaying Delegated Sessions
6.2.14 Managing User RFID Tokens
6.2.15 Displaying User Event Logs
6.2.16 Deleting SSO Data of Disabled User Accounts
6.2.17 Adding or Removing a User from a Group
6.3.1 Displaying Access Point General Information
6.3.2 Defining Access Point Configuration Parameters
6.4 Managing Representative Objects
6.3.2.1 Assigning an Access Point Security Profile to an Access Point
6.3.2.2 Managing the Quest ESSO Controller Services
6.3.3 Assigning/Forbidding Users to Access Points
6.3.4 Assigning/Forbidding Applications to Access Points
6.3.5 Adding or Removing an Access Point from a Group
6.3.6 Displaying Access Point Event Logs
6.4.1 Managing Inbound Representative Objects
6.5 Managing Clusters of Access Points
6.4.1.1 Creating/Modifying an Inbound Representative Object
6.4.1.2 Defining the Set of Users to Represent
6.4.1.3 Assigning a User Security Profile to the Inbound Representative Object
6.4.1.4 Selecting the Access Points Available to the Representative
6.4.2 Managing Outbound Representative Objects
6.4.2.1 Creating/Modifying an Outbound Object
6.4.2.2 Defining the Set of Access Points to Represent
6.4.2.3 Selecting the Applications Available to the Representative
6.4.3 Displaying Representative Event Logs
6.4.4 Renaming Representative Objects
6.4.5 Deleting Representative Objects
6.5.1 Creating and Configuring a Cluster of Access Points
6.5.2 Managing Users' Permissions on a Cluster
6.6 Selecting a Domain Controller
6.5.2.1 Authorizing Users to Access Workstations of the Cluster
6.5.2.2 Displaying the Cluster Composition Made by Authorized Users
6.5.3 Displaying Cluster Event Logs
6.5.4 Renaming Clusters
6.5.5 Deleting Clusters
8.1 Assigning Smart Cards to Users
9 Managing SA Server Devices
10 Managing RFID Tokens
8.1.1 Assigning Smart Cards to Many Users
8.1.2 Assigning a Smart Card to a User
8.1.3 Assigning a new Smart Card Allowing a User to Log on a Workstation which is Disconnected from the Directory
8.2 Formatting Smart Cards
8.3 Forcing a new PIN
8.4 Disabling Temporarily Smart Cards
8.4.1 Disabling Temporarily Smart Cards from the Smart Card Panel
8.4.2 Disabling Smart Cards of a User from the Directory Panel
8.5 Unlocking Smart Cards
8.5.1 Unlocking Smart Cards from the Smart Card Panel
8.5.2 Unlocking Smart Cards from the Directory Panel
8.5.3 Defining Contact Information
8.6 Sending Smart Cards to a Blacklist
8.6.1 Sending Smart Cards to a Blacklist from the Smart Card Panel
8.6.2 Sending Smart Cards to a Blacklist from the Directory Panel
8.7 Extending the Validity of a Smart Card
8.8 Allowing Users to Renew their Smart Card Certificates
8.9 Displaying Smart Card Properties
8.10 Displaying the List of Supported Smart Cards
8.11 Managing Smart Card Configuration Profiles
8.11.1 Creating / Modifying Configuration Profiles
8.11.2 Renaming Configuration Profiles
8.11.3 Deleting Configuration Profiles
8.12 Managing Loan Cards
8.13 Managing Smart Cards' Authentication Parameters
8.14 Managing Batches of Smart Cards
10.1 Assigning an RFID Token
10.2 Locking and Unlocking an RFID Token
11 Managing Biometric Enrolment
10.2.1 Locking and Unlocking an RFID Token from the Directory Panel
10.2.2 Locking and Unlocking an RFID Token from the RFID Panel
10.3 Blacklisting and Deleting an RFID Token
10.3.1 Blacklisting and Deleting an RFID Token From the Directory Panel
10.3.2 Blacklisting and Deleting an RFID Token From the RFID Panel
10.4 Modifying the Detection Areas and the Grace Period
10.5 Exporting a List of RFID Tokens
11.1 Defining the Biometric Enrolment Policy
11.2 Defining the Biometric Workstation Parameters
11.3 Managing the User Enrolment
11.4 Displaying and Exporting the Biometric Enrolment Report
13 Enabling the Public Key Authentication Method
13.1 Configuring User and Access Point Security Profiles to Support the PKA Authentication Method
13.2 Activating the PKA Authentication Method and Defining the Set of Authorized Certification Authorities
14 Managing the Emergency Plan
15 Managing Audit Events
13.2.1 Activating the PKA Authentication Method
13.2.2 Configuring the Set of Authorized Certification Authorities
13.3 Configuring the Automatic Update of the Revocation Information
15.1 Displaying Audit Events
15.2 Defining an Audit Population
15.3 Managing and Applying Audit Filters
16 Managing Reports
15.3.1 Creating an Audit Filter
15.3.2 Saving an Audit Filter
15.3.3 Loading an Audit Filter
15.3.4 Applying an Audit Filter
15.4 Interpreting Audit Events
15.4.1 The Audit Main Window
15.4.2 The "Event Details" Window
15.4.3 Detailed Information on Administration Audit Events
15.5 Exporting Audit Events
15.6 Archiving Audit Records
15.7 Retrieving User ID from Audit ID
15.8 Retrieving Event Codes
16.1 Generating Reports
17 Customizing Configuration Files
18 Creating Scripts
Appendix A: Regular Expressions - Basic Syntax
Appendix B: Listing Audit Events and Error Codes
Appendix C: Correspondence Between Profile and Administration Rights
16.1.1 Generating Application Account Reports
16.1.2 Generating User Account Reports
16.1.3 Generating Administrators Report
16.1.4 Generating Analysis and Statistics Reports
16.2 Exporting the Generated Report
11.3 Managing the User Enrolment
You can manage the user biometric data enrolment from the user object, as explained in Section 6.2.11, "Displaying and Deleting User Biometric Data".
11.4 Displaying and Exporting the Biometric Enrolment Report
The Biometrics panel allows you to display and export the list of users who have enrolled biometric patterns, as explained in the following procedure.
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13 Enabling the Public Key Authentication Method
Quest ESSO provides smart card authentication. This authentication method is used to store the user’s directory credentials necessary to access the user’s SSO data. In addition, Quest ESSO supports Microsoft smart card logon authentication, but this authentication method is limited to Microsoft compliant Public Key Infrastructures.
The Public Key Authentication (PKA) is another authentication method supported by Quest ESSO that can be used to grant SSO to users. The goal of Quest ESSO PKA is to provide user authentication and SSO based on X.509 certificates: authentication and access to SSO is provided only if the user’s certificate is valid and if the user can prove his certificate ownership. Quest ESSO PKA supports smart card driven certificates, the most widespread method of deploying certificates.
Once the PKA authentication method enabled, the Quest ESSO PKA authentication process is as follows:
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If the smart card is PKA compliant, the Quest ESSO client reads the certificate and retrieves the user’s name using the attribute mapping rules. (contents of the certificate on one side and user’s attributes in the LDAP directory on the other side). |
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Once the user has been identified, the Quest ESSO client prompts the user for his/her smart card PIN. |
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Certificate enrollment: if this is the first time the user logs on his/her workstation using the PKA authentication method, the Quest ESSO Controller automatically creates in the Quest ESSO directory an object that contains the user’s LDAP credentials (login name and password). To create the LDAP object, the Quest ESSO Controller does the following: |
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If the certificate is valid, Quest ESSO prompts the user for his LDAP credentials (login name and password). |
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If these credentials grant access to the LDAP directory, Quest ESSO encrypts them using the user’s public key certificate. |
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Quest ESSO then creates an LDAP object where the user’s encrypted LDAP credentials are stored. Access to this LDAP object is restricted to that user; moreover, that user must authenticate using that certificate to gain access to his LDAP credentials. |
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Retrieving encrypted LDAP credentials from the Quest ESSO directory. |
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Using the decrypted LDAP credentials to retrieve Quest ESSO data from the LDAP directory. |
The Quest ESSO PKA authentication process relies on a public key certificate to identify the incoming user. It is therefore necessary to ensure that any public key certificate used to authenticate a user is valid and properly trusted. This requires external PKI material such as a set of public key certificates for each Certification Authority and an access to an On-line Certificate Status Protocol responder or to a set of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL). During the certificate enrollment, the user’s public key certificate is validated as follows:
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The revocation engine is included in the Quest ESSO Controller. Its job is to maintain the accuracy of the revocation status of all public key certificates used for Quest ESSO PKA. For each CRL distribution point or OCSP responder defined, the revocation engine:
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Anytime a user’s public key certificate is revoked, its status is updated in the Quest ESSO directory and the user’s smart card is automatically blacklisted |
13.1 Configuring User and Access Point Security Profiles to Support the PKA Authentication Method
A smart card XML description file must exist and it must contain the description of the specific type(s) of smart card that will be used for PKA authentication. Several reserved keywords are used in the XML file to specify to Quest ESSO that this smart card will be used for that purpose.
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The Password authentication method must also be selected. |
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