Solaris Group Policy - Solaris Active Directory - Sun Active Directory

Solaris Group Policy

PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition integrates Sun Solaris workstations and servers with Microsoft Active Directory so you can centrally manage all your Solaris computers with group policies.

PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition's Solaris group policies are can be edited with the Microsoft Group Policy Object Editor (GPOE) and managed for the enterprise with the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). More: You can use the PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition MMC snap-in for the Group Policy Object Editor to select the systems that you want to target with a group policy. If you have a mixed network, you can target a given group policy only at Solaris machines. The result is a proven, scalable approach for managing the settings of all the Sun Solaris machines in an enterprise.

Solaris Group Policy - Solaris Active Directory - Sun Active Directory

PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition's Solaris group policy solution works like Windows group policy. After a Solaris computer has been joined to Active Directory, the PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition group policy agent runs in the background as a daemon. The daemon determines the list of group policy objects that are to be applied to the Solaris system. These Solaris group policies are not relevant to Windows computers because the corresponding Unix client-side extensions do not exist on a Windows computer.

PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition includes more than 80 group policies that can be applied to Sun Solaris workstations and servers. Here's a sampling of the available policies:

Restrict Logon Rights with require_membership_of
Acquire Kerberos Tickets on Logon
Log on Solaris using Kerberos Authentication
Create a .k5login File in a User's Home Directory
Allow Cached Logons
Refresh Kerberos Tickets
Allow Offline Logon Support
Create a Home Directory for a User Account at Logon
Copy Template Files When Creating a Home Directory
Set Permissions with a File Creation Mask
Display a Message with a Login Prompt Policy
Display a Message of the Day
Create a SysLog Policy
Create Directories, Files, and Links
Automount a File System
Specify the File System Mounts (fstab)
Run a Script File
Schedule Cron Jobs with a crontab
Set the Maximum Password Age
Set the Minimum Password Age
Set the Minimum Password Length
Require Complex Passwords
Show a Password Expiration Warning
Define a Sudo Configuration File Policy

At present, the PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition Solaris group policy solution can be applied to the following Sun Solaris systems:

  • Solaris 8 SPARC
  • Solaris 8 x86
  • Solaris 9 SPARC
  • Solaris 9 x86
  • Solaris 10 SPARC
  • Solaris 10 x86
  • OpenSolaris

See more information on PowerBroker Identity Services Enterprise Edition group policies.

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