Trust relationship, User level security, Glossary – Siemens Unix V4.0 User Manual

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Glossary

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timesource

An Advanced Server for UNIX service which identifies a

server

as a timesource

for a domain. Other

servers

and

clients

can synchronize their clocks with the

timesource. Exception: systems with UNIX cannot be synchronized.

timesource server

The server with the timesource service, which therefore serves as the

timesource

of the

local network.

The other

servers

and

clients

in the network synchronize

themselves with the timesource server. An Advanced Server for UNIX server
can only operate as a timesource server and not as a synchronized server.

trust relationship

Trust relationships are links between domains that enable pass-through
authentication, in which a trusting domain honors the logon authentications of
a trusted domain. With trust relationship, a user who has only one user account
in one domain can potentially access the entire network. User accounts and
global groups defined in a trusted domain can be given rights and resource
permissions in a trusting domain, even though those accounts do not exist in
the trusting domain’s directory database.

user account

Consists of all the information that defines a user to the Advanced Server. This
includes items such as the user name and password required for the user to log
on, the groups in which the user account has membership, and the rights and
permissions the user has for using the system and accessing its resources. For
the Advanced Server, user accounts are managed with User Manager for
Domains. See also

group

.

user account database

The data of the user accounts and the established groups is stored in the
Advanced Server for UNIX databases. See also

user account

and

group

.

user level security

A type of security which manages a

user account

for each user. Each user then

maintains rights for specific

shared resources

which describe which actions each

user can operate with each resource. See also

password

.

username

Every user receives a unique name within a

local network

. Users use this name

to log on to a

server

and to identify themselves.

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