Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.7

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1. About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7

HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

OSF DCE Components Included in This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

HP DCE/9000 Features Added by Hewlett-Packard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Features Added at Previous Releases of HP DCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Features Added at HP DCE 1.7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Features Removed at HP DCE 1.6 and 1.7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Version Identiﬁcation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Cell Conﬁguration and Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and Online Help. . . . . . . . . . 1-7

DES and DES-Hidden Versions of this Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

Limitations of This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Limitations of OSF DCE 1.2.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

HP DCE 1.6 and 1.7 Limitations on OSF DCE 1.2.1

Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

System Utilities Not Integrated with DCE Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Interoperability and Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Binary Compatibility with Previous HP DCE Releases. . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Source Code Compatibility with Previous HP DCE Releases . . . . . 1-11

Interoperability with Other Implementations of OSF DCE . . . . . . 1-11

Interoperability of the DES and DES-Hidden Versions. . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Kerberos Authentication Protocol Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

DCE Support for Kerberos Applications and Conﬁguration

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

Remote Services File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14

Support for Secure Internet Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14

DCE GSS-API Interoperability with MIT and Third-Party

Kerberos Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15

Notes, Cautions and Warnings Regarding This Release. . . . . . . . . . . 1-16

dcecp host Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16

Security and Remote Login Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16