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Synchronization with Native UNIX Security

Although CA ControlMinder permissions are more complex than native UNIX permissions, you can synchronize your native UNIX permissions to your CA ControlMinder permissions. That is, you can make the permissions coincide. However, the synchronization is subject to some limitations:

UNIX platforms with ACLs that can be synchronized to CA ControlMinder are Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and Tru64.

Without such ACLs, you can still synchronize the traditional UNIX rwx permissions to the CA ControlMinder permissions, to the extent possible.

Synchronization is controlled by the combination of the authorize command's UNIX option and the seos.ini file's SyncUnixFilePerms token:

More information:

HP-UX Limitations

Sun Solaris Limitations