This checklist provides an overall view of the major configuration tasks for Solaris Trusted Extensions. The smaller tasks are outlined within the major tasks. The checklist does not replace following the steps in this guide.
The following list summarizes what is required to enable and configure Trusted Extensions at your site. Tasks that are covered elsewhere are cross-referenced.
Read.
Read the first five chapters of Part II, Administration of Trusted Extensions.
Understand site security requirements.
Prepare.
Decide the root password.
Decide the PROM or BIOS security level.
Decide the PROM or BIOS password.
Decide if attached peripherals are permitted.
Decide if access to remote printers is permitted.
Decide if access to unlabeled networks is permitted.
Decide the zone creation method.
Enable Trusted Extensions.
If using IPv6, enable IPv6 for Trusted Extensions.
If using a DOI different from 1, set the DOI in the /etc/system and the /etc/security/tsol/tnrhtp files.
(Optional) Create ZFS pool for cloning zones.
Configure labels.
Finalize your site's label_encodings file.
Check and install the file.
Reboot.
Configure interfaces for the global zone and for labeled zones.
Configure the Solaris Management Console.
Configure the naming service.
Use the files naming service, which requires no configuration.
Or, configure LDAP
Create either a Trusted Extensions proxy server or a Trusted Extensions LDAP server.
Enable the Solaris Management Console server to accept network connections.
Register the Solaris Management Console with LDAP.
Create an LDAP toolbox for the Solaris Management Console.
Configure network connections for LDAP.
Assign an LDAP server or proxy server to the cipso host type in a remote host template.
Assign the local system to the cipso host type in a remote host template.
Make the local system a client of the LDAP server.
Create labeled zones by using the txzonemgr script.
Configure the network. See Configuring Trusted Network Databases (Task Map).
Identify single-label hosts and limited-range hosts.
Determine the labels to apply to incoming data from unlabeled hosts.
Customize the remote host templates.
Assign individual hosts to templates.
Assign subnets to templates.
Establish static routing. See Configuring Routes and Checking Network Information in Trusted Extensions (Task Map).
Configure local users and local administrative roles.
To enforce separation of duty, create customized rights profiles.
Create the Security Administrator role.
Create a local user who can assume the Security Administrator role.
Create other roles, and possibly other local users to assume these roles.
Create home directories on the NFS server.
Create home directories for each user at every label that the user can access.
(Optional) Prevent users from reading their lower-level home directories.
Configure printing. See Managing Printing in Trusted Extensions (Task Map).
Configure devices. See Handling Devices in Trusted Extensions (Task Map).
Configure Solaris features.
Configure auditing.
Configure security settings.
Enable particular LDAP clients to be LDAP administration systems.
Configure users in LDAP.
Configure network roles in LDAP.
Mount and share file systems. See Chapter 17, Managing and Mounting Files in Trusted Extensions (Tasks)