Prerequisites

Consider the following before configuring the Linux connector.

• SSH should be installed on the Linux computer

• Aggregate the sudo user's permissions:

  • The administrator user must have rights to execute the /usr/bin/awk command.

    Update the /etc/sudoers file entry for the administrator user with the /usr/bin/awk command.

  • Add new multi-valued schema attributes to the accounts and entitlement schemas as sudoCommands, which collect all the necessary user commands and stores them as a part of the attribute.

    • If you need to aggregate the sudoCommands from multiple sudo files, then you must provide a list of files as a separate configuration attribute. Separate each sudo file in the command with a comma (,).

      For example:

      • key – sudoCmdFiles

      • value – /etc/sudoers.d/special_user.conf,/etc/sudoers.d/special_group.conf

      The default command which collects the sudo commands is as follows:

      awk '/^[^#]/' /etc/sudoers

      In the above command, the commented lines are skipped and the remaining content of the /etc/sudoers file are aggregated in to a temporary file on the Linux computer.

      If you want to provide a new command for aggregating file data, then you can configure it as a part of the application XML file.

      For example:

      key: sudoUserCommand and value : awk '/^[^#]/' /etc/sudoers

• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 9.1 and later, ensure that service account has Bracketed paste mode disabled.

  To disable the bracketed paste mode for a specific user, add the following line to ~/.inputrc:

  set enable-bracketed-paste off