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Chapter 4
Policy Agents on Red Hat, SuSE, and
Debian Linux
This chapter explains how to installand configure Web Policy Agents available for
the web servers running on Red Hat Linux 7.2, Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Red Hat
Advanced Server 2.1.
Topics include:
• Before You Begin
• Pre-installation Tasks
• Installing the Agent
• Post-installation Tasks
• Configuring the Agent for Multiple Web Server Instances
• Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with an Agent
• Setting the REMOTE_USER Server Variable
• Validating Client IP Addresses
• Shared Secret Encryption Utility
• Uninstalling the Policy Agent
• Troubleshooting
Before You Begin
Besure you’re familiarwiththe concepts presented inChapter 1,“Read This First.”
The chapter includes brief but important information on the following topics: