While Argus' primary support focus is in serving customers with active support contracts, the following information is provided as is, free of charge, for those who are conducting an evaluation of our products.

General Questions

• What are the key security features added by PitBull?
• What is the relationship between your different PitBull products and releases?
• What versions of UNIX are compatible with PitBull?
• What is the difference between MAC (Mandatory Access Control) and DAC (Discretionary Access Control)?
• Role Based Access Control in Solaris 8 and AIX 4.3.3 vs PitBull
• What prevents root (UID 0) and other system UIDs (128 or lower) from being able to log in to a PitBull Foundation system?

Installation, Initial Configuration, and Patches...

• How do I install PitBull?
• If I need to apply a patch to the system, how do I do it safely without causing problems with PitBull?
• I have a PitBull system configured with disk management software. I need to install new Argus patches on the system, is there a special procedure that I need to perform?
• Once I get a license key generated, can I change the hostname without requiring a new license key?
• How do I update a license on Foundation?
• How do you add new classifications and/or compartments to the system?
• What are all the steps required to add new users to the system?
• Do I really need twice the memory size in /swap? What if I have 2 GB of memory?
• I just downloaded a patch and tried to untar it, but it won't untar. What's wrong?
• Kernel security flags: Can I modify them?
• How do I disable CDE?
• Is AIX's /usr/sbin/chfs command (to resize partitions) compatible with PitBull?
• I customized inittab before installing PitBull Foundation. Will I have problems with the installation?
• How does switching run levels affect Argus security?
• "Partially allocated inode" error during installation -- why?

Networking...

• What are your TCP-IP tuning recommendations?
• I am having trouble routing through a Solaris PitBull system.

PitBull Foundation Suite Modules...

• Which Netscape servers (or other web servers) are compatible with PitBull Foundation Suite?
• Can PitBull Foundation Suite handle two different servers at different SLs?
• What if the two servers share the same document root outside the servers' installation directory?
• How can I secure my NES Administration Server and Command Center so that access is only allowed from one machine?

Secure Communications Enforcer...

• Does the SCE (UDE) understand SSL?

Secure CGI Module...

• Where do I put my CGI files when I'm using the SCM (cgid)? What label should I assign them?
• The Secure CGI Module (SCM) is serving my files from /cgi-bin, but Apache returns an error saying it can't find them in /usr/support/apache/cgi-bin. Why?
• Can the Secure CGI Module (SCM or cgid) handle fast CGIs (fcgi)?

Security Gate...

• When I try to start a Security Gate, it complains that options are missing, even though I know I have all the pieces of the command present. What's wrong?

Secure Program Launcher...

• Why do you want to specify a delay in execenv.conf?
• Is it possible to have multiple execenv.conf files the way it is possible to have multiple gibraltar.conf files?
• None of my environment variables carry across an execenv execution. Neither do the special privileges like PV_ROOT, which usually carries across all execs. Why? Can I work around it?

Troubleshooting Foundation Suite Modules...

• I get the "Internal Server Error" when authenticating with authd or when executing a script with cgid. Why?

The PitBull SDK...

• Can I install the PitBull SDK on a non-Argus system?

Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software and PitBull...

• What types of software are compatible with a PitBull system? What types of software are not compatible?
• How do I use a third-party backup and restore utility with PitBull systems?
• How do I secure a third-party application with PitBull?
• PitBull and Veritas Volume Manager
• PitBull and Veritas NetBackup
• PitBull and Solstice Disk Suite
• Third party auditing tools and Foundation Suite auditing events

Troubleshooting and Other Questions...

• If I want to disable PV_ROOT for all ISSO users, how do I do it?
• I just tried to change the SL of a file system object, but it's not correct. What's wrong here?
• IL Floating doesn't seem to work. Why not?
• Is there a way to augment the way MACHINE generated passwords are built?
• Is there a way to add different authentication methods, such as multiple-user confirmation, ID cards, and biometrics?
• How do I use the Identification and Authentication / Foureyes system for purposes other than login, such as protecting individual commands?
• When I su to root, commands complain that I'm unauthorized but azlist says I have them. What's the problem?
• I am having problems performing a PitBull restore to a disk drive while booted from a PitBull CD-ROM. What's going on?
• How to restore a system from a ufsdump file.
• inetd with PV_ROOT among other privileges is "unable to set security." This is keeping all telnet sessions from connecting. How do I fix this?
• The privileges I've applied to the Innate sets on my shell scripts don't always get applied to the process created, though I also have the FSF_EPS flag set. Why?
• When I remove PV_MAC and PV_LEF from my process's limiting privilege set, it loses the ability to read the Label Encodings File. Why? PitBull 2.2 for Solaris 2.5.1