HP DCE Application Development Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2

HP DCE Application Development Release Note

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Chapter 1 9

If the total size of members in any group exceeds the limit speciﬁed by LINE_MAX then, the

getgrXbyY(), returns members up to the size speciﬁed by LINE_MAX. Members beyond

that limit are discarded.

In the above case, getgrent() will return all the members through successive calls,

wherein, each call will return the maximum limit speciﬁed by LINE_MAX.

Product Changes and Enhancements

• Integrated login has been ported onto the 64-bit environment.

• getgrid() / getgrnam() request return members of any group up to the limit speciﬁed by

the return value of sysconf (_SC-GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX). Members beyond that limit are

discarded.

In the above case, getgrent() will return all the members through successive calls,

wherein, each call will return the maximum limit speciﬁed by sysconf

(_SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX).

• Use of overriden information in NSS calls.

When DCE is conﬁgured as the repository for name service requests the NSS calls

retrieves information from the override ﬁles (/etc/opt/dce/passwd_override) and

(/etc/opt/dce/group_override) instead of retrieving it from DCE, if the user/group

information is present.

If the user/group is not present then the NSS calls will retrieve this information from

DCE. This is true for all the getgr*/getpw* calls except for getgroups () where it checks

only in DCE.

• Password change in override ﬁle.

For any user present in the /etc/opt/dce/passwd_override ﬁle, thepassword command

will change the password in the override ﬁle.

• When the passwd_export command is run to get the new /etc/passwd, /etc/group ﬁles,

the new password character is ‘D’, instead of character ‘*’ in the password ﬁeld of the

/etc/passwd ﬁle.

• A new man page for ilogind (1m) is available. Also, a revised version of the pam_dce

man page has been included.

NOTE Integrated login was not available on HP-UX 11i v1.