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One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Passwords 2.9 - Administration Guide

Introduction System requirements Using the virtual appliance and web management console Installing the desktop client Setting up Safeguard for Privileged Passwords for the first time The console Navigation pane Privileged access requests Toolbox Accounts Account Groups Assets Asset Groups Discovery Entitlements Partitions Settings
Access Request settings Appliance settings Asset Management settings Backup and Retention settings Certificate settings Cluster settings External Integration settings Messaging settings Profile settings Safeguard Access settings Sessions settings
Users User Groups Disaster recovery and clusters Administrator permissions Preparing systems for management Troubleshooting Frequently asked questions Appendix A: Safeguard ports Appendix B: SPP 2.7 or later migration guidance Appendix C: SPP and SPS join guidance Appendix D: Historical changes by release Glossary

Security Policy Administrator permissions

The Security Policy administrator configures the security policies that govern the access rights to accounts and assets, including the requirements for checking out passwords, such as the maximum duration, if password reasons are required, if emergency access is allowed, and so forth. This user may not know any details about the assets.

This user configures time restrictions for entitlements and who can request, approve and review access requests.

  • Creates account groups, asset groups, and user groups.
  • Creates entitlements.
  • Configures access request policies.
  • Adds users or user groups to entitlements to authorize those accounts to request passwords.
  • Can assign linked accounts to users for entitlement access policy governance.
Table 210: Security Policy administrator: Permissions
Navigation Permissions

Dashboard | Access Requests

Full control to manage access requests.

Activity Center

View and export security-related activity events, including access request events.

Audit access request workflow.

Reports

View and export entitlement reports.

Administrative Tools | Toolbox

Access to the Account Groups, Asset Groups, Entitlements, Users, and User Groups view.

Access to the Tasks pane.

Administrative Tools | Account Groups

Add, modify or delete account groups.

Add accounts to account groups.

Assign policies to account groups.

Administrative Tools | Asset Groups

Add, modify or delete asset groups.

Add assets to asset groups.

Assign policies to asset groups.

Administrative Tools | Entitlements

Add, modify or delete entitlements.

Add users or user groups to entitlements.

Define and maintain access request policies.

Assign policies to entitlements.

Administrative Tools | Settings:

 

  • Access Request | Reasons
Add, modify, or delete reason codes.
  • Cluster | Session Appliances

If Safeguard for Privileged Passwords (SPP) is joined to Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS), view the appliance information for the join.

  • External Integration | Application to Application

Add, modify, or delete application registrations.

  • External Integration | Approval Anywhere
Configure Approval Anywhere service for access request approvals.
  • External Integration | Starling

If Safeguard for Privileged Passwords is joined to Starling, view the Starling join information.

  • External Integration | Ticketing

If Safeguard for Privileged Passwords is configured to work with an external ticket system, view the ticket information.

  • Messaging | Message of the Day

Login notification: View only.

Set message of the day.

Administrative Tools | Users

Add users to user groups. Add users to entitlements. Link directory accounts to a user. View and export the history of users.

Administrative Tools | User Groups

Add, modify or delete local user groups.

Add local or directory users to user groups.

Assign entitlements to user groups.

User Administrator permissions

The User Administrator:

  • Creates (or imports) Safeguard for Privileged Passwords users.
  • Grants Help Desk Administrator permissions to users.
  • Sets passwords, unlocks users, and enables or disables non-administrator user accounts.
  • Also has Help Desk Administrator permissions.

NOTE: User Administrators cannot modify administrator passwords, including their own.

Important: User Administrators can change the permissions for their own account which may affect their ability to grant Help Desk Administrator permissions to other users. When you make changes to your own permissions, they take effect next time you log in.

Table 211: User Administrator: Permissions
Navigation Permissions

Activity Center

View and export user activity events.

Administrative Tools | Toolbox

Access to the Users and User Groups view.

Access to Tasks pane.

Administrative Tools | Settings:  
  • External Integration | Identity and Authentication
View only.
  • Messaging | Message of the Day

Login notification: View only. Set message of the day.

  • Safeguard Access | Login Control

View only.

  • Safeguard Access | Password Rules
View only.
  • Safeguard Access | Time Zone

View only.

Administrative Tools | Users

Add, modify, delete or import local and directory users.

Set passwords and unlock accounts for non-administrator users.

Enable or disable non-administrative users.

Set Help Desk Administrator permissions.

Administrative Tools | User Groups

Add or delete directory groups, if a directory has been added to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords.

Preparing systems for management

Before you add systems to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords (Adding an asset), you must ensure they are properly configured.

Generally, to prepare an asset for Safeguard for Privileged Passwords:

  1. Create a functional account (called a "service" account in Safeguard for Privileged Passwords) on the asset and assign it a password.

    Note: To add an asset to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords, it must have a service account. For more information, see About service accounts.

  2. Grant the service account sufficient permissions.
  3. Test the service account connectivity.
  4. Configure the security protocol.

  5. For platforms that support SSL server certificate validation, add the server’s signing authority certificate to the Trusted Certificates store in Safeguard for Privileged Passwords. For more information, see Trusted Certificates.

The following topics can help you prepare your hosts for management by Safeguard for Privileged Passwords:

Safeguard for Privileged Passwords supports a variety of platforms. For more information, see Supported platforms.

Prepare ACF - Mainframe systems

This applies to both ACF2 - Mainframe and ACF2 - Mainframe LDAP platforms.

To prepare IBM ACF-mainframe systems for Safeguard for Privileged Passwords

  1. Create a service account on the asset and assign it a password. The service account must have the SECURITY attribute enabled for ACF2 ChangePassword to work properly.
  2. Grant the service account the privileges required to use the ALTERUSER command on other profiles.

  3. If not already installed, install a telnet server on the z/OS system. If required, secure telnet with SSL.

    Note: Please refer to your IBM z/OS system documentation for details on installing and configuring the telnet server (and SSL).

  4. Test the telnet server using a Windows-based 3270 emulator or on Linux, use the telnet-ssl or x3270 programs to test SSL and non-SSL connections to an z/OS system.
  5. In Safeguard for Privileged Passwords, create the asset and accounts for the z/OS system using password authentication.
About certificate support for the telnet protocol

Safeguard for Privileged Passwords automatically accepts any server certificate that the connection offers and does not verify the trust chain on the telnet certificate. In addition, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords does not support client certificate selection so if telnet requires that the client present a certificate that is signed by a recognized authority, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords cannot support that configuration.

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