Administering your system with SCOadmin

Remote capabilities

The root user or a system owner can perform remote tasks with most SCOadmin managers. When you open another host via the Host Open Host selection, any administration or configuration you perform affects only that host. When using managers to administer the local machine, you can also:

manipulate remote print jobs (submitted by a remote host) that show up in the queue for the Print Job Manager
export filesystems to remote machines, and mount remote filesystems, with the Filesystem Manager

Users other than root or system owners can also use portions of these managers if they have been granted the appropriate subsystem authorizations as described in ``Enabling remote manager capabilities''.

Enabling remote manager capabilities

Before using SCOadmin managers to administer remote systems, you must:

Enable remote access between your system and the systems to be managed. Do this for each user who is a system owner or has authorization to run SCOadmin managers.
WARNING: Enabling remote access - also known as ``user equivalence''- compromises the security of your system, in that all persons who can access the root account of the remote machine now have access, as root, to your machine. Grant this access sparingly.
For non-system owner accounts, you must assign authorizations (as described in ``Assigning authorizations'') on each machine to those users who will access the SCOadmin managers.

NOTE: You also have the option of defining system owners (who have the power to run all SCOadmin managers) and the systems from which they can access a given host. See ``Using the SCOadmin Setup Wizard'' or make-owner(1M) for more information.

With remote access properly set-up, you can select a host to configure in one of the managers. Actions taken after selecting another host affect that host.