An Adminstrator's Guide to Akenti

Mary Thompson


Abstract

This document describes the procedures for setting up and using Akenti to control access to a set of resources. First it gives an overview of all the servers that may be run as part of an Akenti infrastructure and the configuration files that the various servers use. Second it gives a brief description of how to use the Netscape CA and LDAP servers to issue identity certificates to those people who will have access to the resources. It describes how to set up simple Akenti resource tree, and how to create UseCondition and attribute certificates for the resources. It describes two methods for a resource server to call Akenti to check access for the resources. Finally it shows what a user must to do get access to the controlled resources.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview of the servers
  2. Configuration Files and Policy Certificates
  3. Configuration for the Akenti Policy Engine
  4. Setting up Akenti Standalone Server
  5. Setting up a Secure Resource Server
  6. Overview of Netscape Certificate Management System
  7. Starting the servers

1. Overview of servers

The Akenti server infrastructure consists of some of the following servers: