HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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NAME
sam - system administration manager
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/sam [-display display][-f login][-r]
DESCRIPTION
The sam command starts a menu-driven System Administration Manager program (SAM) for performing
system administration tasks with only limited, specialized knowledge of the HP-UX operating system.
SAM discovers most aspects of a system’s configuration through automated inquiries and tests. Help
menus describe how to use SAM and perform the various management tasks. Press the F1 function key for
help on a currently highlighted field and for more information not covered in this manpage. Status mes-
sages and a log file monitor keep the user informed of what SAM is doing.
Running SAM
SAM has been tuned to run in the Motif environment, but it can be run on text terminals as well. To run
SAM in the Motif environment, be sure that Motif has been installed on your system, and that the
DISPLAY environment variable is set to the system name on which the SAM screens should be displayed
(or use the
-display command line option).
Generally, SAM requires superuser (user root) privileges to execute successfully. However, SAM can be
configured (through the use of "Restricted SAM"; see below) to allow subsets of its capabilitiesto be used by
non-root users. When Restricted SAM is used, non-root users are promoted to root when necessary to
enable them to execute successfully.
Options
SAM recognizes the following options.
-display display Set the DISPLAY value for the duration of the SAM session.
-f login Execute SAM with the privileges associated with the specified login. When used
in conjunction with
-r, the Restricted SAM Builder is invoked and initialized
with the privileges associated with the specified login. You must be a superuser
to use this option. See "Restricted SAM" below for more information.
-r Invoke the Restricted SAM Builder. This enables the system administrator to
provide limited non-superuser access to SAM functionality. You must be a
superuser to use this option. See "Restricted SAM" below for more information.
SAM Functional Areas
SAM performs these system administration tasks:
Auditing and Security (Trusted Systems)
• Set global system security policies - Add, modify and remove commands from the list of Authenti-
cated commands.
• Turn the Auditing system on or off.
• Set the parameters for the Audit Logs and Size Monitor.
• View all or selected parts of the audit logs.
• Modify (or view) which users, events, and/or system calls get audited.
• Convert your system to a Trusted System.
• Convert your system to a non-Trusted System.
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