Safeguard Authentication Services 5.0.2 - Installation Guide

Management Console for Unix requirements

One Identity recommends that you install One Identity Management Console for Unix, a separate One Identity product that provides a management console that is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that dramatically simplifies deployment of Safeguard Authentication Services agents to your clients. The management console streamlines the overall management of your Unix, Linux, and macOS hosts by enabling centralized management of local Unix users and groups and providing granular reports on key data and attributes.

Prior to installing Management Console for Unix, ensure your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements for your platform.

Network requirements

Safeguard Authentication Services must be able to communicate with Active Directory, including domain controllers, global catalogs, and DNS servers using Kerberos, LDAP, and DNS protocols. The following table summarizes the network ports that must be open and their function.

Installing and configuring Safeguard Authentication Services

To extend the authentication, authorization, and administration infrastructure of Active Directory to the rest of your enterprise, allowing Unix, Linux, and macOS systems to act as full citizens within Active Directory, you must install and configure Safeguard Authentication Services:

1. Install Management Console for Unix.
2. Install Safeguard Authentication ServicesWindows components.
3. Configure Active Directory for Safeguard Authentication Services (one time only).
4. Configure Unix Agent Components
   1. Configure the management console for Active Directory.
   2. Prepare the Unix hosts for Active Directory user access:
      • Add and profile a host.
      • Check the host for readiness to join Active Directory.
      • Install Safeguard Authentication Services agent software packages on the host to allow Active Directory user access.

        Note: For users to authenticate on Unix, Linux, and macOS hosts with Active Directory credentials, your Unix hosts must have the Safeguard Authentication Services agent installed.

      • Join the host to Active Directory.

Install the management console

In preparing for your Safeguard Authentication Services installation, One Identity recommends that you install Management Console for Unix. This provides a management console that is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that dramatically simplifies deployment, enables management of local Unix users and groups, provides granular reports on key data and attributes, and streamlines the overall management of your Unix, Linux, and macOS hosts.

You can install the management console on Windows, Unix, or Linux computers. Each hosting platform prompts for similar information.

The following install files are located on the Safeguard Authentication Services distribution media under console | server:

• ManagementConsoleForUnix_unix_2_n_n.sh - for Unix and Linux
• ManagementConsoleForUnix_windows_2_n_n.exe - for Windows
• ManagementConsoleForUnix_windows-x64_2_n_n.exe - for Windows

where "n.n" indicates the product version number.

The Management Console for Unix Administration Guide contains detailed instructions for installing the management console on all of these platforms. Use the following procedure to install the console on a supported Windows platform from the Safeguard Authentication Services 5.0.1 distribution media.

Of course, you can install Safeguard Authentication Services without using Management Console for Unix. If you wish to do that, skip these instructions and go to Installing and joining from the Unix command line.