System Management Concepts: Operating System and Devices

Chapter 3. Security

This chapter explains advanced system security topics. System security is explained in AIX 5L Version 5.1 System User's Guide: Operating System and Devices.

Topics covered in this chapter are:

• Security Administration
• System Security Guidelines
• Trusted Computing Base Overview
• Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Overview
• Auditing Overview
• PKCS #11 Overview (POWER-based platform only)
• LDAP Exploitation of the Security Subsystem