topic Re: External Authentication, ACME style in Operating System - OpenVMS

External Authentication, ACME style

Rob Crooks — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:51:20 GMT

I would like to be able to authenticate some of my VMS users to an LDAP directory using the ACME product, but am worried about messing up my existing VMS authentication.
Can I install the ACME package without disabling the existing SYSUAF method?

Eventually, I would want all my users to be done this way, but I want to play with it first.

I read the documentation and come up with this

To install the ACME LOGINOUT image:
$ PRODUCT INSTALL V732_ACMELOGIN
To install the traditional LOGINOUT image:
$ PRODUCT INSTALL V732_LOGIN

Is the result of installing ACME LOGINOUT that my "traditional" method doesn't work?

Also, I read somewhere that ACME is available as part of vms 8.3, where as it is installable on 7.3-2.

Thanks

Re: External Authentication, ACME style

John Gillings — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:11:50 GMT

Rob,

>Can I install the ACME package without disabling the existing SYSUAF method?

Of course! You can't do it any other way. Every user still needs a SYSUAF entry. Set the EXTAUTH flag for those you want authenticated by the external ACME. There's another flag - VMSAUTH which allows both types of authentication.

See the docs for full details.

Re: External Authentication, ACME style

Rob Crooks — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:10:03 GMT

John

Appreciate the response. I was concerned that I would end up disabling one method by enable the other.

I am going to give it a shot.