Configuring PAM on AIX to be used by sapstartsrv

[Former Member]

Dear AIX-experts,

I want to configure the SAP MMC on my WinXP-desktop to start, stop and monitor all of our AIX-based SAP-systems with Release 7.0. Basic Monitoring already works thanks to the nice new sapstartsrv for Unix, but starting and stopping doesn't work because the authentication to the systems doesn't work (I use <SID>adm which is a local OS-user, not a NIS-user).

SAP-note 927637 tells us to configure PAM for AIX correctly. I edited the /etc/pam.conf, but it didn't work. Here's what I added:

========

telnet  auth    required        /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
sapstartsrv     auth    required        /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
OTHER   auth    required        /usr/lib/security/pam_prohibit
(...)
telnet  account required        /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
sapstartsrv     auth    required        /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
OTHER   account required        /usr/lib/security/pam_prohibit
(...)
telnet  session required        /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
sapstartsrv     auth    required        /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
OTHER   session required        /usr/lib/security/pam_prohibit

========

Are there any other steps necessary to configure PAM correctly?

Is the service name really sapstartsrv?

Any other clues?

Thanks and kind regards

Christian

[georg_leffers · Accepted solution]

Hi Christian,

please check SAP note 1140980. This should solve your problem.

With best regards, Georg

[Former Member]

Hello Christian,

I'm facing the same problem. Could you please tell me if you solved your issue? If yes, how did you do?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Z.