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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 for all users, but only the root user, the owner, should have execute permission.

  To add this library to the path for all users, include this command in the global /etc/bashrc file:

  export PATH=$PATH:/etc/pam_CA_eta