Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Security Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.1)
  1. About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
    1.  
      About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
  2. User authentication
    1. About user authentication on the NetBackup appliance
      1.  
        User types that can authenticate on the NetBackup appliance
    2. About configuring user authentication
      1.  
        Generic user authentication guidelines
    3.  
      About authenticating LDAP users
    4.  
      About authenticating Active Directory users
    5.  
      About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
    6.  
      About the appliance login banner
    7. About user name and password specifications
      1.  
        About STIG compliant password policy rules
  3. User authorization
    1.  
      About user authorization on the NetBackup appliance
    2. About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
      1.  
        NetBackup appliance user role privileges
    3.  
      About the Administrator user role
    4.  
      About the NetBackupCLI user role
  4. Intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems
    1.  
      About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
    2.  
      About the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system
    3.  
      About the NetBackup appliance intrusion detection system
    4.  
      Reviewing SDCS events on the NetBackup appliance
    5.  
      Running SDCS in unmanaged mode on the NetBackup appliance
    6.  
      Running SDCS in managed mode on the NetBackup appliance
    7.  
      Overriding the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system policy
    8.  
      Re-enabling the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system policy
  5. Log files
    1.  
      About NetBackup appliance log files
    2.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    3.  
      Where to find NetBackup appliance log files using the Browse command
    4.  
      Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command
    5.  
      Log Forwarding feature overview
  6. Operating system security
    1.  
      About NetBackup appliance operating system security
    2.  
      Major components of the NetBackup appliance OS
    3.  
      Disabled service accounts on the NetBackup appliance
    4.  
      Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup appliance
  7. Data security
    1.  
      About data security
    2.  
      About data integrity
    3.  
      About data classification
    4. About data encryption
      1.  
        KMS support
  8. Web security
    1.  
      About SSL certification
  9. Network security
    1.  
      About IPsec Channel Configuration
    2.  
      About NetBackup appliance ports
  10. Call Home security
    1.  
      About AutoSupport
    2. About Call Home
      1.  
        Configuring Call Home from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      2.  
        Enabling and disabling Call Home from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      3.  
        Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      4.  
        Understanding the Call Home workflow
    3. About SNMP
      1.  
        About the Management Information Base (MIB)
  11. IPMI security
    1.  
      Introduction to IPMI configuration
    2.  
      Recommended IPMI settings
    3.  
      Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate
  12. STIG compliance
    1.  
      OS STIG hardening for NetBackup appliances
    2.  
      Unenforced STIG hardening rules
  13. Appendix A. Security release content
    1.  
      NetBackup Appliance security release content

About user authentication on the NetBackup appliance

Table: NetBackup appliance account types describes the user accounts that are available on the appliance.

Table: NetBackup appliance account types

Account type

Description

User

The NetBackup appliance is administered and managed through user accounts. You can create local user accounts, or register users and user groups that belong to a remote directory service. Each user account must authenticate itself with a user name and password to access the appliance. For a local user, the user name and password are managed on the appliance. For a registered remote user, the user name and password are managed by the remote directory service.

In order for a new user account to log on and access the appliance, you must first authorize it with a role. By default, a new user account does not have an assigned role, and therefore it cannot log on until you grant it a role.

You can grant the following roles to a user or a user group:

  • Administrator

    A user account that is assigned the Administrator role is provided administrative privileges to manage the NetBackup appliance. An Administrator user is allowed to log on, view, and perform all functions on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console and the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu. These user accounts have permissions to log on to the appliance and run NetBackup commands with superuser privileges.

    See About the Administrator user role.

  • NetBackupCLI

    A user account that is assigned the NetBackupCLI role can execute all NetBackup commands, view logs, edit NetBackup touch files, and edit NetBackup notify scripts. NetBackupCLI users are solely restricted to run NetBackup commands with superuser privileges and do not have access outside the scope of NetBackup software directories. Once these users log on, they are taken to a restricted shell from where they can run the NetBackup commands.

    See About the NetBackupCLI user role.

admin

The admin account is the default Administrator user on the NetBackup appliance. This account provides full appliance access and control for the default Administrator user.

New NetBackup appliance are shipped with the following default logon credentials:

  • User name: admin

  • Password: P@ssw0rd

When mounting or mapping shares from an appliance, make note of the following:

  • Windows: Only the Admin account is authorized to mount or map Windows CIFS shares.

  • Linux: Only users with a root access account can issue the mount command directly to mount NFS shares.

Maintenance

The Maintenance account is used by Veritas Support through the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (after an administrative log-on). This account is used specifically to perform maintenance activity or to troubleshoot the appliance.

sisips

The sisips account is an internal user for implementing the SDCS policies.

root

The root account is a restricted user that is only accessed by Veritas Support to perform maintenance tasks. If you try to access this account, the following message is displayed:

Permission Denied !! Access to the root account requires 
overriding the Symantec Intrusion Security Policy.

Please refer to the appliance security guide for 
overriding instructions.

Warning:

Please note that you can override the Veritas Intrusion Security Policy (ISP) to gain access to the root account. However, doing so is not recommended as it puts the system at risk and vulnerable to attack.See Overriding the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system policy.

See About authorizing NetBackup appliance users.