Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 1.9

Chapter 2

About HP-UX DCE Version 1.9

Limitations of HP-UX DCE 1.9

Following are limitations of HP-UX DCE 1.9:

• The tool passwd_import, which imports user account information from /etc/passwd ﬁles to the Registry

database, does not import the passwords themselves. Therefore, after you have used passwd_import to

create skeletal DCE accounts in the Registry database, you must use the dcecp tool to add passwords to

those accounts. This information is particularly important to customers who plan on using the HP-UX

Integrated login tools (login, etc.) with DCE.

• Transitive trust path generation and evaluation, as described in sections 33.1.2 and 33.1.4 of the OSF

DCE Administration Guide - Core Components is not supported.

• Cell alias/rename is partially supported: creation of cell aliases (dcecp cellalias create) is supported;

renaming of cells (dcecp cellalias set) is not supported. Disregard Sections 21.6.2 and 21.6.3 of the

OSF DCE Administration Guide - Core Components.

• Cell alias names are not automatically propagated across cell boundaries. Use of cell aliases across cell

boundaries is supported when the cell alias name is manually registered in the security name space.

System Utilities Not Integrated with DCE Security

The following utilities are not integrated with DCE Security:

• cron

• at

• rexecd

• lp