Argus: Policy Administration Point (PAP)

The Policy Administration Point (PAP) provides three major functions:

• Provide the tools for authoring policies
• Store and manage authored policies
• Provide managed policies to other authorization service components

Summary

• Argus Policy Administration Point (PAP) Installation
• Argus Policy Administration Point (PAP): Configuration
  • Configuration Files
  • Service configuration file
  • Service Access Control
  • Environment file
• Argus: Policy Administration Point (PAP): Operation
  • Service Operation Commands
  • Service Ports
  • Service Endpoints
  • Service Logs
• Argus Policy Administration Point (PAP): Administration
  • Running the pap-admin client
  • Policy Management Commands
  • PAP Management Commands
  • Authorization Management Commands
• The Simplified Policy Language
  • The SPL syntax
  • Identifying actions and resources
  • Identifying subjects
  • The contents of the rule stanza
  • How policies are evaluated
  • The obligation stanza
  • Examples
• Argus: Policy Administration Point (PAP): Known Issues