Security Manager Service

The Security Manager is a VTS component that supplies all of the routines necessary to implement varying levels of security in a VTS application. The Security Manager service performs the following tasks:

•      Obtains and maintains Account List information through RPC.

•      Obtains and maintains security settings in an .ini file through RPC.

•      Automatically synchronizes security files between servers and clients.

•      Allows users to logon and log off using a keyboard and mouse.

•      Allows users to logon through an alternate identification source.

•      Allows users with the Account Modify privilege to modify their username and password.

•      Allows users with the Account View privilege to view their privileges.

•      Allows users with the Manager privilege to manage accounts (i.e. add, copy, modify, and delete security accounts).

•      Allows users with the Administrator privilege to modify administrative settings and perform other administrative functions.

•      Allows users with other system and application privileges to perform a wide variety of tasks.

•      Provides enforcement of or exemption from workstation-specific security access restrictions.

•      Provides minimum password length and password display enforcement.

•      Allows suppression of system privileges from user and manager dialogs.

•      Performs security checks for Security Manager dialogs and for access to VTS components.

•      Maintains log information on all user traffic and account modifications.

To minimize security risks due to implementation faults, the Security Manager is written in a physically separate and redundant fashion.