VAS Error Codes???
It’s not verbose but it’ll give you the idea of which codes mean what. /** vas_err_t error codes * Nearly all VAS API functions return a vas_err_t type. More information about * the specific VAS error...
View ArticleIBM DB2 LDAP Plugin and Vintela DB2 Security Plugin
What is the difference between the DB2 LDAP Plug in provided by IBM and DB2 Security Plug in for LDAP from Vintela? Are they the same product? We just converted our IBM SP MPP server from NIS to VAS...
View ArticleCreate pre-auth computer object with vastool
Hi, I need to be able to create computer objects with vastool instead of being forced to log in to a windows server, run a vbs, and then drag'n'drop the object to the correct OU (OU varies alot).It...
View ArticleAIX VAS NIS authentication issues
Hello All- Here's my issue, we have AIX 5.3 running NIS. We are moving our environment to VAS but we need both authentication methods while we complete the process. When VAS and ypbind are...
View ArticleUnlock AD Entry via Vastool & Keytab
I have a number of lightly used systems which periodically get locked out of Active Directory (I'm not certain the cause, perhaps they're not changing their password quick enough). Anyways, I was...
View ArticleAIX agent Management Console
Hi,Looking for the/an agent which let me connect my AIX servers to the Quest One Management Consolefor Unix server.I found an linux/solaris/mac OS/windows agent but none for AIX ... but in the...
View ArticleNot seeing correct AD group membership using vastool
We have an AD group 'foo'. User Abe is added to it using AD tools. I cannot see this user in the group using vastool on Solaris. And of course the user cannot login. $ vastool list groups | grep...
View ArticlePutty 0.62 session menu with Windows 7
I've recently upgraded to Windows 7, and am enjoying the menu of open putty sessions displayed when I hover my mouse over the putty icon in my toolbar. HOWEVER, one aspect which bothers me is how the...
View ArticleVSJ could not authorize the request
When deploying the code to the test environment, the application fails with the following error. I am not too sure what else need to be changed from the configuration to make it works.The code works...
View ArticleWrong ticket encryption for W2K clients only causes VSJ to fail
Hi,I am facing the following problem.The Windows service account used for Vintela SSO is set up using "Use DES encryption for this account". The keytab is created with ktpass ... -crypto DES-CBC-MD5...
View Articlevasd won't stop
On a couple AIX 5.3 servers (running DB2), the vasd daemons cannot be stopped by using "/etc/rc.d/init.d/vasd stop". Instead, I have to "kill" the processes in order for them to stop.vasd reports...
View ArticleNTLM SMB issue - Could not get valid NTLM challenge from ........
I'm trying to debug an issue with NTLM failback, I have the filter configured correctly as per any other deployments.I'm able to authenticate users correctly using Kerberos, but I have noticed in the...
View ArticleInvalid AD Groups
All, we have experienced where bad or no longer valid AD groups are in users.allow, this negates authentication across the board. Version 4.1 QAS. Is this by design? Is there a stanza in vas.conf...
View ArticleQAS and NTLMV2
We're getting ready to switch over to NTLMv2 exclusively in the AD world ... are there any negatie implications for a mixed deployment of mostly QAS 4X - with a few 3X stragglers in the mix?
View ArticleVAS User Group Membership Issues
Hello everybody, I have been working on this issue for awhile now, and I am having no luck.I am having an issue with Quest (VAS) authentication as user groups. I am having an issue where a user can log...
View Articlev4.1 or 4.0.3
I have a quick question. I would like to upgrade our UNIX components to QAS v4.1 from 3.5.2.12. While the company is considering upgrading to 4.1, we are currently at 4.0.3 in AD. If i go ahead to do...
View ArticleVASD Errors
When running vas_status.sh, I am getting this alot with version 4.1.20185:FAILURE: 721 In-consistent access control ALLOW cache What does this mean and is it fatal?Would it also be possible to get a...
View Articlevastool flush - Loading user cache error
Does anyone have a list of the Loading User cache errors? I did a vastool flush and received the following error: Loading users cache: ..... Error while loading user cache: 16 I found some of the...
View ArticleBuilding mod_auth_vas-3,5,3.308 on AIX v5.3 fails
I am working to build the mod_auth_vas module with IBM's IHS 2.0.47.0 version of Apache. I am using IBM's C compiler as this is the default of the IHS version. The configure succeeds, but the link...
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