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

HP DCE 1.7 for HP-UX 11.0 Release Note 27

Known Problems and Work Arounds

Differences in Functionality

the aliases, and ﬁll in those ﬁelds in the local dce_cf.db ﬁle. The data

is obtained from the remote node via dcecp hostdata commands

using string bindings.

NOTE This feature only works if the Security Server is running HP DCE 1.4.1

or later versions. If the security server is an HP DCE 1.2 or 1.2.1

machine, users must still provide a cell name.

• Servers under high stress require non-standard memory and swap.

For details, see Planning and Conﬁguring HP DCE 1.7.

• The pe_site ﬁle has changed as follows:

✓ There is a new ﬁeld at the end of each line which is the name of

the replica at the address.

✓ The pe_site ﬁle is updated once an hour by dced; if you edit it

manually, entries for the local cells will be overwritten; other cells,

however, will not be affected.

✓ You can use the “secval update -pesite interval” dcecp

command to change the update interval. You can also use the

secval update command to force an update to happen

immediately.

✓ The /krb/krb.conf ﬁle is updated by dced.

• HP DCE 1. 4.x includes support to integrate DCE with HP-UX

Integrated Login. When integrated with DCE, login utilities

authenticate users via the DCE Security Registry instead of via

/etc/passwd and /etc/group. The Integrated Login utilities include

Note that HP-UX Integrated Login is a different product from the

DCE-Integrated Login Product that HP DCE/9000 provides on

HP-UX 9.x operating systems. See Chapter 6 of Planning and

Conﬁguring HP DCE 1.7 for more information on HP-UX Integrated

• Hewlett-Packard supports only the ANSI C compiler for building

DCE applications. This restriction also applies to applications on

HP-UX 10.x that use the HP-UX user space threads library libcma.

• secd supports the following additional options: -audit.

• DCE RPC-only and NCS-only applications require that dced be

running to provide EP and LLB services. dced has been modiﬁed so

that if it is invoked as rpcd, it does not require any initialization or