Benefits

Local Network Benefits

• Controlled access to root password
• Record of administrative actions
• Ensures accountability of administrators
• Guards against viruses or Trojan horses during root activities
• Selective sharing of root

Unburden Your Systems Administrator

Allow designated users to:

• change passwords for others
• clear jammed printer queues
• start backup processes
• manage log files
• kill hung jobs or users
• mount file systems
• reboot selected systems.

The key benefit to any organization in deploying UPM is its ability to relieve expensive and busy systems administrators from routine day-to-day tasks, which are better handled by local departments. UNIX functionality dictates that to give someone the ability to manage printers or cancel hung users or jobs within their department, we must give them the ability to manage these tasks in all departments. UPM provides fine-grained control over such privileges, saving the time of one of your most expensive and busy people -your administrator.