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

HP DCE 1.7 for HP-UX 11.0 Release Note 9
What’s In This Version
HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 Overview
HP Value-Added Features New at HP DCE 1.7
The following features are new at HP DCE 1.7:
• NSS-DCE: a DCE module for the Name Service Switch.
• DCE support for Kerberos V5 applications through creation of
configuration and keytab files.
• All integrated login utilities, including ftpd, now use PAM. There are
no longer any separate .auth binaries.
NOTE Although HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 can be installed on both the HP-UX
11.0 32-bit OS and the 64-bit OS, HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 does not
support development of 64-bit DCE applications.
The following feature was removed at HP DCE 1.7:
• Network Computing System (NCS) Version 1.5.1 compatibility.
In addition, HP DCE 1.7 contains numerous bug fixes.
HP Value-Added Features New at HP DCE 1.6
HP added the following features to DCE in HP DCE 1.6. For detailed
information about these features, see Planning and Configuring HP
DCE 1.6.
• New integrated login features including:
✓ The -timeout option in the pam.conf configuration file. It
specifies the length of time it is acceptable to wait for a response
from DCE for the specified function.
✓ The password expiration feature. A command,
-warn_pwd_expiry m warns users to change their passwords if
they are going to expire within m days. Another command,
-force_pwd_change n forces users to change their passwords if
they are about to expire within n days.
✓ Cross-cell login using a fully qualified DCE name. It is supported
for integrated login configurations created by
auth.adm -i -l dce -b ux or auth.adm -i -l dce, but not
for other configurations created by auth.adm.