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Sun[TM] Identity Manager 8.0 Resources Reference

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AIX

The AIX resource adapter is defined in the com.waveset.adapter.AIXResourceAdapter class.

Resource Configuration Notes

If you will be using SSH (Secure Shell) for communication between the resource and Identity Manager, set up SSH on the resource before configuring the adapter.

Identity Manager Installation Notes

No additional installation procedures are required on this resource.

Usage Notes

The AIX resource adapter primarily provides support for the following AIX commands:

mkuser, chuser, rmuser
mkgroup, chgroup, rmgroup
passwd, pwdadm

Note	For more information about supported attributes and files, refer to the AIX manual pages for these commands.

The Bourne-compliant shell (sh, ksh) must be used as the root shell when connecting to a UNIX resource (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, or Linux).

The administrative account that manages AIX accounts must use the English (en) or C locale. This can be configured in the user's .profile file.

In environments in which NIS is implemented, you can increase performance during bulk provisioning by implementing the following features:

Add an account attribute named user_make_nis to the schema map and use this attribute in your reconciliation or other bulk provisioning workflow. Specifying this attribute causes the system to bypass the step of connecting to the NIS database after each user update on the resource.
To write the changes to the NIS database after all provisioning has completed, create a ResourceAction named NIS_password_make in the workflow.

Security Notes

This section provides information about supported connections and privilege requirements.

Supported Connections

Identity Manager uses the following connections to communicate with the AIX adapter:

Telnet
SSH (SSH must be installed independently on the resource.)
SSHPubKey

For SSHPubKey connections, the private key must be specified on the Resource Parameters page. The key must include comment lines such as --- BEGIN PRIVATE KEY --- and --- END PRIVATE KEY --. The public key must be placed in the /.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server.

Required Administrative Privileges

Managing users and groups require that the administrator be root or a member of the security group.

The adapter supports logging in as a standard user, then performing a su command to switch to root (or root-equivalent account) to perform administrative activities. Direct logins as root user are also supported.

The adapter also supports the sudo facility (version 1.6.6 or later), which can be installed on AIX from the AIX Toolbox. The sudo facility allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user.

In addition, if sudo is enabled for a resource, its settings will override those configured on the resource definition page for the root user and admin user.

If you are using sudo, you must set the tty_tickets parameter to true for the commands enabled for the Identity Manager administrator. Refer to the man page for the sudoers file for more information.

The administrator must be granted privileges to run the following commands with sudo:

User, Group, and Security Commands		NIS Commands	Miscellaneous Commands
chgroup chgrpmem chsec chuser lsgroup lssec lsuser mkgroup mkuser	rmgroup rmuser passwd pwdadm	make ypcat ypmatch yppasswd	awk cat cd chmod chown cp cut diff echo	grep ls mv rm sed sleep sort tail touch

You can use a test connection to test whether

These commands exist in the administrator user’s path
The administrative user can write to /tmp
The administrative user have rights to run certain commands

Note	A test connection can use different command options than a normal provision run.

The adapter provides basic sudo initialization and reset functionality. However, if a resource action is defined and contains a command that requires sudo authorization, then you must specify the sudo command along with the UNIX command. (For example, you must specify sudo useradd instead of just useradd.) Commands requiring sudo must be registerd on the native resource. Use visudo to register these commands.

Provisioning Notes

The following table summarizes the provisioning capabilities of this adapter.

Feature	Supported?
Enable/disable account	Yes
Rename account	No
Pass-through authentication	Yes
Before/after actions	Yes
Data loading methods	Import directly from resource Reconcile with resource

You can define resource attributes to control the following tasks for all users on this resource:

Create a home directory when creating the user
Copy files to the user’s home directory when creating the user
Delete the home directory when deleting the user

Account Attributes

The following table lists the AIX user account attributes. All attributes are Strings. Attributes are optional unless noted in the description.

Resource User Attribute	mkuser Equivalent	Description
accountId	login_name	Required. The user’s login name.
account_locked	account_locked=[true | false]	Indicates if the user account is locked.
admin	admin=[true|false]	Defines the administrative status of the user.
daemon	daemon=[true|false]	Indicates whether the user can run programs using the cron or src daemon.
expires	expires=MMDDhhmmyy	The expiration date of the account.
gecos	gecos=String	General information about the user.
groups	groups=GroupNames	A comma-separated list of group names the user belongs to.
home	home=PathName	The full path to the user’s home directory. Any value specified in this account attribute takes precedence over a value specified in the Home Base Directory resource attribute.
id	id=Integer	A unique integer string that specifies the user ID.
login	login=[true | false]	Indicates whether the user can log in to the system with the login command.
loginretries	loginretries=attempts	The number of unsuccessful login attempts allowed after the last successful login before the system locks the account.
maxage	maxage=weeks	The maximum age, in weeks, of a password.
maxexpired	maxexpired=weeks	The maximum time, in weeks, beyond the maxage value that a user can change an expired password.
pgrp	pgrp=GroupName	The user's primary group.
rlogin	rlogin=[true | false]	Permits access to the account from a remote location with the telnet or rlogin commands.
shell	shell=PathName	The program run for the user at session initiation. If you are provisioning to an NIS master, the value of the user shell will be checked on the NIS master only. Checks against other machines the user may log on to will not be performed.
su	su=[true | false]	Indicates whether another user can switch to the specified user account with the su command.
umask	umask=Value	Sets file permissions.

Resource Object Management

Identity Manager supports the following native AIX objects:

Resource Object	Features Supported	Attributes Managed
Group	Create, update, delete, save as	groupName, admin, users

Identity Template

$accountId$

Sample Forms

Built-In

AIX Group Create Form
AIX Group Update Form

Also Available

AIXUserForm.xml

Troubleshooting

Use the Identity Manager debug pages to set trace options on the following classes:

com.waveset.adapter.AIXResourceAdapter
com.waveset.adapter.ScriptedConnection

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