Endpoint Administration Guide for UNIX › Managing Policy Models › Automatic Rule-based Policy Updates › Using the seagent and sepmdd Daemons › The sepmdd Daemon

The sepmdd Daemon

The sepmdd daemon performs the following functions:

• Administers the PMDB
• Administers the subscriber databases
• Propagates changes from the PMDB to the subscriber databases

The sepmdd daemon is automatically started by seagent when seagent has to access the PMDB. Normally you do not need to run sepmdd explicitly.

Note: sepmdd runs under the logical user _seagent (not under root) in the AC environment. To permit or restrict access to resources by sepmdd (for example, to restrict access to the PMDB directory), create the relevant rules for _seagent.