Updating WPAR

This section describes the procedure for making the workload partitions (WPAR) for AIX complaint to EAL4+.

Create the WPAR on a BAS system, and run the following command in WPAR to make it EAL4+ compliant:
/usr/lib/security/CC_EVALify.sh
When you run clogin on a LAS system for the first time , the firstboot scripts run (that includes CC_EVALify.sh ).
The firstboot scripts cause clogin to run longer than usual when clogin calls TSM to login. However WPAR is still in configuration mode, so the login is denied. You must wait approximately for 10 minutes for WPAR to complete the configuration before attempting another clogin. For newly created WPAR systems, the default user options must be set to meet the evaluation requirements that includes:
  • root in BAS mode
  • isso/sa/so in LAS mode
The root and isso users have no password or require weak passwords. The passwords must be updated before allowing untrusted users access to the global environment or the respective WPAR.
The evaluation password requirement is that the probability of correctly guessing a password must be at least one in 1,000,000, and the probability of correctly guessing a password during repeated attempts within one minute must be at least one in 100,000. To comply with the requirement, the user parameters in /etc/security/user file is changed to:
default:     
 maxage       = 8
 maxexpired   = 1
 minother     = 2
 minlen       = 8
 maxrepeats   = 2
 loginretries = 3
 histexpire   = 52
 histsize     = 20