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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
  3. Additional configuration
  4. About the vm.conf configuration file
  5. PREFERRED_GROUP entry in vm.conf
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

PREFERRED_GROUP entry in vm.conf

Veritas encourages the use of Veritas Product Authentication and Authorization for NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) instead of legacy security implementations.

For information about the PREFERRED_GROUP configuration entry, see the NetBackup 6.0 documentation. Information on Veritas Product Authentication and Authorization is available.

See the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

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