Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9

Chapter 2
About HP-UX DCE Version 1.9
Notes, Cautions and Warnings Regarding This Release
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Setting LANG and NLSPATH Environment Variables
English-language users of HP-UX DCE 1.9 should set the NLSPATH environment variable to include
/usr/lib/nls/C/%N or should set NLSPATH to include /usr/lib/nls/%L/%N and LANG to C. Users who
want to use another language should set the NLSPATH environment variable to include /
usr/lib/nls/%L/%N and LANG to their preferred language. See the environ (5) and locale (1) manpages for
details on LANG and NLSPATH syntax.
dcecp in Local Mode
When you run dcecp in "local" mode (that is, when you start dcecp with the local option) on a host with
dced in partial-service mode, there is a possibility that a dcecp `acl modify -add' command will not work.
The interactive dcecp session may hang or a Bus Error may be returned. One workaround for this condition
is to run dcecp in normal mode on a host that is running dced, also in normal mode, and then execute dcecp
again. Alternatively, you can quit out of local mode between acl modify -add commands, as follows:
dcecp -local dcecp
> acl modify -local foo1 -add ... dcecp
> quit dcecp -local dcecp
> acl modify -local foo2 -add ... dcecp
> quit
dcecp secval Change
At HP-UX DCE 1.6, dcecp's secval activate and secval deactivate commands became asynchronous.
They return before the actual change takes place within dced. Therefore, you should use the secval status
command to verify the state change. Prior to HP-UX DCE 1.6, secval activate and secval deactivate
were synchronous and did not return until the actual state change finished in dced.
HP-UX DCE 1.9 Interoperability with SharedPrint/UX
SharedPrint/UX 1.3 or earlier will not operate with HP-UX DCE 1.9.
k5dcelogin Limitation
There is a limitation in the k5dcelogin command when called by rlogin -f to log in to the local node.
If you already have Kerberos credentials on the local node when using rlogin -f to log in, then when you
exit or log out, your local Kerberos credentials will be deleted. This is a limitation in k5dcelogin, where the
local credentials are deleted on completion of the process.
The workaround is to use rlogin without the -f option when logging in to the local node. When you use
rlogin -f to log in to a remote node, k5dcelogin deletes the credentials on the remote system once you exit
the remote system; this is intended behavior.