Is install_fnp.sh the UNIX equivalent to Windows' installanchorservice.exe?

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Is install_fnp.sh the UNIX equivalent to Windows' installanchorservice.exe?

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According to the Trusted Storage-based Programming Reference: "For Mac OSX and Unix platforms the product installer must run the install_fnp.sh script to install the licensing service." Is this the equivalent to installanchorservice.exe?

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The step on UNIX is equivalent to using our example installanchorservice.exe on Windows. Trusted storage is setup differently on the different architectures, so the setup utilities are significantly different. On Windows, before trusted storage is created or accessed, the Licensing service must be installed; we provide installanchorservice.exe as an example application.

On UNIX hosts, before trusted storage is accessed, its directory structure must be initialized. In addition, on Mac OS and Linux platforms, the FLEXnet Licensing Service?an administrative proxy that runs on behalf of the user for interactions to and from trusted storage?needs to be installed. We provide platform-specific install_fnp.sh files with each trusted storage toolkit specifically to meet the requirements necessary for trusted storage to work on that system.

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The licensing service is required for providing elevated privileges to access elements related to Binding, Anchoring and UMN. On Windows and Mac, it is required and on Linux it is optional. On Linux, it is only used to obtain UMN1. On Solaris (or in fact any other Unix system), we do not use any elements that require the elevated privileges.

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