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SecurityYou can secure your HCL OneDB™ database server and the data that is stored in your HCL OneDB™ databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL OneDB™The HCL OneDB™ Security Guide documents methods for keeping your data secure by preventing unauthorized viewing and altering of data or database objects, including how to use the secure-auditing facility of the database server.
Securing data
Connection securityYou can administer the security of the connections to the database server by using authentication and authorization processes.
Pluggable authentication modules (UNIX™ or Linux™)A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) is a well-defined framework for supporting different authentication modules that were originally developed by Sun Microsystems. PAM is supported in both 32- and 64-bit modes on Solaris, Linux™, HP-UX and AIX®.
Define a PAM serviceIf you define your own PAM service for the HCL OneDB™ server instead of using one of the services that are already defined in the pam.conf file, you must include the auth and account functions.

Define a PAM service

If you define your own PAM service for the HCL OneDB™ server instead of using one of the services that are already defined in the pam.conf file, you must include the auth and account functions.

Include the auth and account functions for the service.

On UNIX™, add the following lines to the pam.conf file:

pam_service auth sufficient path_and_filename
pam_service account sufficient path_and_filename

where pam_service is the name of the PAM service and path_and_filename is the path and file name of your PAM file.

For example:

pam_service auth sufficient /opt/mycompany/lib/mypam.so
pam_service account sufficient /opt/mycompyny/lib/mypam.so

See the operating system documentation for the complete PAM configuration instructions.