HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 for HP-UX 11.0 Release Note

10 HP DCE 1.7 for HP-UX 11.0 Release Note

What’s In This Version

HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 Overview

✓ Forced password change on login. Administrators can set

pwdvalid no in a user’s account to force change of password on

✓ As of HP DCE 1.6, passwd -R becomes passwd -r.

✓ The addition of -e, -g and -h ﬂags to passwd -r dce.

passwd -r dce -e username changes the username shell in

the DCE registry only.

passwd -r dce -g username changes the username gecos

(ﬁnger) information in the DCE registry only.

passwd -r dce -h username changes the username home

directory in the DCE registry only.

✓ In HP DCE 1.6, new Kerberos tickets now overwrite any existing

ticket for the same client and server as long as the tickets are the

same size. If the existing ticket has not expired, the new ticket

overwrites the old one only if the authdata matches. Previously,

the new Kerberos tickets were always appended to the end of the

credential ﬁle cache, allowing it to grow without bound and also

requiring time on every lookup to scan over the expired

credentials.

HP Value-Added Features For HP DCE 1.5

HP added the following features to DCE in HP DCE 1.5. For detailed

information about these features, see Planning and Conﬁguring HP

DCE 1.5.

• HP DCE Measurement Service (DMS) to monitor resource utilization

and performance of HP DCE 1.6 and 1.7 servers.

• Support for large UIDs.

• Integrated login support for CDE/PAM.

• Support for large ﬁles APIs; however, there is no support for creating

or operating on large ﬁles within DFS. DFS became unavailable with

Version 1.6.

• Support for context-switching 64-bit machine registers in DCE

threads (libcma and libdce).

• Thread-safe wrappers for the new POSIX 1003.1b calls (waitid,

nanosleep, and setrlimit64).

In addition, HP DCE 1.5 contains numerous bug ﬁxes.