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UNIX Password Synchronization

A password synchronization module is provided that detects password change events through the UNIX PAM framework. The UNIX Password Synchronization module notifies the Provisioning Server of a password change. The Provisioning Server finds the associated Global User, and propagates changes to other related accounts automatically.

The UNIX operating systems that support the PAM framework include:

• AIX v5.3 on Power platform with PAM enabled
• HP-UX v11.00 on a PA-RISC platform, and Itanium® 2 platforms
• Solaris v2.6 and higher on Sparc and Intel platforms
• 32-bit Linux with glibc v2.2 and higher on s390 or Intel i386 platform

  Note: For Linux platforms, the test_sync binary must be on the PATH and should be owned by the root user with execute permisisions set for owner only.