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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section IX. Administering NetBackup
  4. Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
  5. About authorizing nonroot users for specific applications
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About authorizing nonroot users for specific applications

Nonroot users can be authorized for a subset of the NetBackup administrator applications.

To authorize users for a subset of the NetBackup administrator applications, use the following identifiers for the ADMIN keyword in the auth.conf file:

ALL

Indicates that the user has administrative privileges for all of the applications that are listed in this table.

AM

Activity Monitor

BPM

Backup Policy Management

BAR or JBP

Backup, Archive, and Restore

CAT

Catalog

DM

Device Monitor

HPD

Host Properties

MM

Media Management

REP

Reports

SM

Security Management

SUM

Storage Unit Management

VLT

Vault Management

For example, to give a user (user1) access only to the Device Monitor and Activity Monitor, add the following entry to the auth.conf file:

user1 ADMIN=DM+AM

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