Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Security Guide
- About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
- User authentication
- About user authentication on the NetBackup appliance
- About configuring user authentication
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About the appliance login banner
- About user name and password specifications
- User authorization
- Intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
- About the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system
- About the NetBackup appliance intrusion detection system
- Reviewing SDCS events on the NetBackup appliance
- Running SDCS in unmanaged mode on the NetBackup appliance
- Running SDCS in managed mode on the NetBackup appliance
- Log files
- Operating system security
- Data security
- Web security
- Network security
- Call Home security
- Remote Management Module (RMM) security
- STIG and FIPS conformance
- Appendix A. Security release content
- Index
About authenticating Active Directory users
The NetBackup appliance uses the built-in Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) plug-in to support the authentication of Active Directory (AD) users. This functionality allows users belonging to an AD service to be added and authorized to log on to a NetBackup appliance. AD is considered as another type of user directory with a schema installed on it by UNIX services.
The following describes the pre-requisites and requirements for using AD user authentication on the appliance:
Ensure that the AD service is available and is set up with the users and user groups that you want to register with the appliance.
Note:
As a best practice, do not use group names or user names that are already used for appliance local users or NetBackupCLI users. Additionally, do not use the appliance default names admin or maintenance for AD users.
Ensure that the authorized domain user credentials are used to configure the AD server with the appliance.
Configure the appliance with a DNS server that can forward DNS requests to an AD DNS server. Alternatively, configure the appliance to use the AD DNS server as the name service data source.
Before registering new AD users and user groups on the appliance, you must configure the appliance to communicate with the AD service. Once the configuration is complete, the appliance can access the AD server user information for authentication.
Configure AD authentication using one of the following methods:
page from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory commands from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
For detailed instructions on how to configure and manage AD user authentication on the appliance, refer to the NetBackup Appliance Administrator's Guide and the NetBackup Appliance Commands Reference Guide.
Starting with appliance release 3.2, NetBackup appliances support two-factor authentication (2FA) for Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) domain users with the NetBackup Web UI. The following describes the 2FA support for the 3.2 release:
The nbasecadmin user or any user with the NetBackup Adminstrator role can configure 2FA for the NetBackup Web UI.
2FA is only supported for AD or LDAP domain users with the NetBackup™ Web UI. The 2FA feature is not currently supported through the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu or NetBackup Appliance Web Console.
2FA configuration requires separate AD or LDAP configuration for NetBackup, even if AD or LDAP is already configured on the appliance.
For details about how to enable 2FA, see the following topic:
See About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates.