Preface

The i-Planet Administration Guide is designed to help you configure and administer your i-Planet^TM software.

Who Should Use This Manual

The i-Planet Administration Guide is written for the system administrator. This book assumes that you have root access, are familiar with administration concepts for Solaris systems, including the use of pkgadd to install programs and the use of admintool to add users, and are familiar with networking concepts.

How This Manual Is Organized

The i-Planet Administration Guide is divided into the following chapters and appendixes:

• Chapter 1, "i-Planet Overview," presents an overview of the features, compatibility, hardware and software requirements, and online help and documentation of your i-Planet software.

• Chapter 2, "Administration Console," describes how to use i-Planet's Administration Console.

• Chapter 3, "Other Administrative Tasks," describes the scripts and commands as well as what files may need editing for i-Planet.

• Chapter 4, "i-Planet User Administration Command Line Interface," describes the Java^TM command line interface that i-Planet administrators can use to create i-Planet users, delete i-Planet users, view the properties of all i-Planet users, and List all i-Planet users.

• Chapter 5, "SSL Service and Certificates," describes how to create self-signed SSL certificates, obtain SSL certificates from Verisign and other vendors, use SSL service between the i-Planet server and i-Planet gateway, and enable SSL service.

• Chapter 6, "Administering i-Planet Firewall Application," describes how to configure and administer the i-Planet firewall application.

• Chapter 7, "Authentication," contains information on authentication and the authentication modules.

• Chapter 8, "Supporting Remote Users," describes what you need to do to set up and prepare your remote users, what issues you can expect, and the resolution to the problems.

• Appendix A, "Customizing i-Planet HTML Template Files," provides instructions for customizing the appearance of the i-Planet Desktop.

• Appendix B, "Pluggable Authentication APIs," contains the instructions for the pluggable authentication application programming interface (API).

• Appendix C, "Third Party Software," describes how to install and configure a pcANYWHERE host on your desktop PC at work, how to install other third-party software for controlling PCs remotely, how to add the package for GO-Joe, how to configure the RPC port for Microsoft Exchange, and how to install NetCon.

Related Books

Other documents in i-Planet 2.0 documentation set are:

• i-Planet 2.0 Installation Guide

• i-Planet 2.0 Installation Install Card

Ordering Sun Documents

The SunDocs^SM program provides more than 250 manuals from Sun Microsystems, Inc. If you live in the United States, Canada, Europe, or Japan, you can purchase documentation sets or individual manuals using this program.

For a list of documents and how to order them, see the catalog section of the SunStore^SM Internet site at http://www.sunstore.sun.com.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

The docs.sun.com Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com/.

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions 

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder:  replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	machine_name%
C shell superuser prompt	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	#