POSIX Linux Profile: General Information
Use this page to specify information about the Linux® service instance.
The Linux service instance uses an agentless adapter based on IBM® Security Directory Integrator assembly lines. Complete the following fields to connect to the server where the service is:
- Service name
- Specify a name that helps you identify the service instance. For example, you might include the host name of the computer on which the Linux service instance runs.
- Description
- Specify additional information about the Linux service instance.
- Connection mode
- This option is available only if the erconnectionmode attribute
is added to the service form. Specify whether to have the managed
resource process account requests or to have the service act as a
manual service.
- Automated
- Specifies to route account requests to a service provider. This selection is the default setting.
- Manual
- Specifies to route account requests to a specific user. Selecting Manual enables the Participants page, the Messages page, and a different Reconciliation page in the navigation area.
- Tivoli Directory Integrator location
- Optional: Specify the URL for the Security Directory Integrator instance.
Valid syntax is
rmi://ip-address:port/ITDIDispatcher, where ip-address is the Security Directory Integrator host, and port is the port number for the RMI Dispatcher. For example, you might specify the URL asrmi://localhost:1099/ITDIDispatcher. Specify the value of localhost in the etc/hosts file. - Managed resource location
- Specify the host name or IP address for the Linux resource. For IPv6 addresses, enter the address value in brackets. An example of a URL using IPv6 would be http://[address]:port number
- RXA Internet Command TimeOut
- The RXA library is used for the internal communication between the adapter and the managed resource. By default, when RXA issues a command, it expects a response within 5000 milliseconds. This property is only used when the managed resource takes more than default time to respond and the RXA call fails with timeout error.
- Delete home directory when the account is deleted?
- Select this check box to delete the home directory of the user
on the Linux server when the
account is deleted.
Ensure that you also set the home directory permissions, which by default are none. If no permissions are set, the home directory is not deleted when the account is deleted.
- Use a shadow file?
- Select this check box if you want to use an access-restricted ASCII system file that stores users' encrypted passwords and related information. This field is unique to the UNIX service types.
- Return sudo privileges?
- If checked, the adapter returns the sudo privileges granted to users and groups during reconciliation.
- Path to the sudoers file
- If it is not the default location /etc/sudoers on the resource, enter the directory path to the sudoers file.
- Owner
- Specify the existing user ID of the service owner that administers
the Linux service instance.
Click Search to specify the name of the user who owns the service.
If a name exists in this field, click Clear to specify to use any user in administering the service instance
- Service prerequisite
- Specify an existing service instance or function that the Linux service instance requires.
Click Search to specify an existing service instance or function that the Linux service instance requires.
Click Clear to remove the currently specified service.
If a service has another service defined as a service prerequisite, a user must have an existing account on the service prerequisite. Otherwise the user cannot receive a new account.
Click Test Connection to test the connection to the service.