Your Novell Teaming system should be located behind your firewall. If Teaming users want to access the Teaming site from outside your firewall, you should set up a proxy server outside your firewall to provide access. You can use Novell Access Manager to protect your Teaming site, as described in Configuring Single Sign-On with Novell Access Manager
in Advanced Installation and Reconfiguration
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide.
The Novell Teaming site is initially installed to allow administrator access by using the username admin and the password admin. The Teaming administrator password should be changed immediately after installation, as described in Accessing Your Basic Teaming Site as the Site Administrator
in Basic Installation
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide.
All communication with the Novell Teaming site should be configured to use SSL connections, as described in:
By default, if a user’s Novell Teaming session is idle for four hours (240 minutes), Teaming logs the idle user out. For increased security for your Teaming site, you can make the session timeout shorter, as described in Changing the Teaming Session Timeout
in Advanced Installation and Reconfiguration
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide.
Novell Teaming controls all access to folders and entries by using role-based access controls. Teaming is intended to be used primarily for the sharing of information, so many default access rights tend toward allowing at least universal read access. For information on setting access controls for your Teaming site, see:
You can configure Novell Teaming to receive e-mail and post the messages as entries in a folder, as described in Enabling Inbound E-Mail
in Basic Installation
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide. Because e-mail is inherently unsecure, there is no way to be sure that the senders are who they claim to be. Entries posted by e-mail include the e-mail address of the sender to alert Teaming users about the origin of the postings.
The default Novell Teaming installation allows authenticated access via Web services, as described in Configuring Web Services
in Advanced Installation and Reconfiguration
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide. If you are not using Web services, you can disable them.
Because RSS readers are outside of the authentication Teaming system, the URL provided by Novell Teaming for an RSS feed embeds some authentication information about the user. This means that the RSS URL must be protected and not shared between users. For this reason, RSS is not recommended for use on highly sensitive data. If necessary, you can disable RSS feeds for your Teaming site, as described in Managing RSS Feeds
in Advanced Installation and Reconfiguration
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide.
Mirrored folders make files that are stored on a file system available to users on the Novell Teaming site. Two levels of security are provided for mirrored folder access:
When you create mirrored folder resource drivers, as described in Configuring Mirrored Folder Resource Drivers
in Advanced Installation and Reconfiguration
in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Installation Guide, you can choose read-only access or read/write access. In addition, you can identify specific Teaming users and groups that are allowed access to the mirrored folder resource drivers.
When you set up the mirrored folders on the Teaming site, as described in Section 11.0, Setting Up Mirrored Folders in this guide, you can set access controls on the Mirrored File folder.