Section 1 - 2
SENTRY User’s Guide
Fitzgerald & Long
1.0 DATABASE CREATION AND VALUDATION MENU
This is the first submenu accessible from SENTRY's Main Menu. It is also the first selection you will
make after installing SENTRY. Through this menu, you will execute programs which load all the UNIX
passwd and group information on your system into SENTRY's database.
SENTRY Database Creation and Validation Menu 07 AUG 2000
1. Upload User and Group Profiles from UNIX
2. Create Database from File System
3. Validate the User Profile Database
"<RETURN>" to return to previous menu
Please select one of the above:
Figure 6 -
The Database Creation and Validation Menu provides access to three programs through
which you may create and validate the SENTRY database.
Three processes are available in this menu. These provide the capability of uploading the passwd and
group files into the SENTRY database, uploading file system information and validating the SENTRY
database.
The first selection,
1. Upload User and Group profiles from UNIX
reads your existing UNIX
passwd and group files and writes the information into SENTRY's database. This is the first program you
will execute after SENTRY is installed.
The second selection,
2. Create Database from the File System
transverses your local file systems
reading all information and creating B-trees to index this information. Note that no remote (NFS) disks are
read.
After SENTRY's database has been loaded with the passwd, group and file system data, selection
3.
Validate the User Profile Database
is used to test the consistency of the data in SENTRY's database.
Tests include checks to insure that permissions do not reference users who do not exist in the passwd file or
groups which have no registered users. Following extensive validation, a report is produced which
documents the inconsistencies found.
The following sections present a detailed description of each program, the screens and the prompts.
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