Managing Security In Global HP-UX Infrastructure...

[Lee Harris_5]

Say for example you had about 500 HP-UX boxes dotted around the world, and a number of support users who needed access to every one of these boxes and be able to have root access and access to other administrative IDs...

What would be your chosen method for managing that?

Discuss

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Have you heard about "eTrust" software?
I think is is very good software to manage a huge of user and good security software.
Can see in this site:
www.etrust.com

Regard,
Hoang Chi Cong

[Steven E. Protter]

I would probably want a good security integration product like mentioned in the prior post.

I'm concerned with a lot of users needing root access. root access should only be granted to the actual system administrator, not even operations needs it.

sudo can provide access to root commands that operations and other admnistrative users need.

If a user needs to administer a large number of systems, then openss/secure shell with public key exchange can ease the burden of memorizing a bunch of passwords.

SEP

[Lee Harris_5]

Thanks for the replies. I thought this is what would be suggested.