4.1 Overview of Linux User Management

Figure 4-1 illustrates how LUM works with PAM-enabled services. For more detailed information, see Linux User Management: Access to Linux for eDirectory Users in the OES 2 SP3: Planning and Implementation Guide. As illustrated, OpenWBEM is the only PAM-enabled service that is active by default.

Figure 4-1 Linux User Management on OES

The user-creation steps you completed earlier in this guide (Section 3.8, Creating Users) created three LUM users with limited rights as local users on the OES 2 server.