IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Organisation Remarks
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- Uninterruptible Power Supply (USP)
By using an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), the consequences of a
power failure can be prevented. Netware supports the utilisation of devices
supporting UPS-Monitoring. In case of a sudden power failure the server
will be shut down normally at the end of the by-pass time of the UPS. All
data residing in caches are written to hard disks. Connections to servers are
terminated, as are server processes.
Configuration of the network environment
Novell Netware 4.x offers its own security system for the protection of the
network and its resources. However, the corresponding functions must be
activated manually by the administrator during configuration of a Netware 4.x
network, so the administrator is responsible to a considerable extent for the
security of the network.
The Novell Netware Administrator is an essential aid in administrating and
securing a Netware 4.x network This program comes in the following
versions:
- SYS:PUBLIC\NWADMIN.EXE for Windows 3.11,
- SYS:PUBLIC\WIN95\ NWADMN95.EXE for Windows 95,
- SYS:PUBLIC\WINNT\NWADMNNT.EXE for Windows NT and the more
recent version,
- SYS:PUBLIC\WIN32\NWADMN32.EXE for Windows NT and Windows
95.
The program Netware Administrator allows a wide range of settings, such as
setting a minimum password length or the maximum number of simultaneous
connections for a user. In the following section, the security-relevant functions
of the Netware administrator are listed and explained. The descriptions
include specifications of the related parameter settings required for the secure
operation of a Netware 4.x network.
One essential step involved in the configuration of a secure Netware 4.x
network is the creation of user accounts. Templates for the standard users of
each context should be created for this purpose. During the establishment of
individual user accounts, the values set in the templates are transferred, which
greatly reduces the time and effort involved. The option named USE
TEMPLATE has been provided for this purpose. The following functions
should be set in a template:
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000