Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 2.0

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Miscellaneous Notes
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Miscellaneous Notes
This section contains miscellaneous information about HP-UX DCE 2.0
cell administration.
• To better integrate HP-UX DCE with existing HP-UX systems, HP
has added new functionality to the passwd_export utility. Before
exporting groups from the DCE registry to the /etc/group file, HP
passwd_export looks for the file /etc/opt/dce/sys.group and
prepends any group information from that file to the new
/etc/group file. This allows an administrator to effectively override
group information from the network registry on the local system.
Because existing HP-UX groups conflict with the groups defined by
the DCE architecture, HP has supplied a template file,
/etc/opt/dce/sys.group, that is installed on every HP-UX system
when DCE is configured. This ensures that the /etc/group file
created by passwd_export will have the correct group IDs for the
groups that HP-UX software relies on. For example, bin::2 will be
prepended to the new group file from the template file before bin::3
is exported from the DCE registry to the group file. Existing HP-UX
utilities that expect bin to be group ID 2, will then find the correct
entry first in the /etc/group file.
• DCE utilities and applications open /dev/lan0 (or, depending on the
configuration of the local host's network interfaces, another
/dev/lan* file) in order to obtain the local host's IEEE 802 address.
This address is used to generate UIDs. HP's DCE configuration tools
ensure that /dev/lan* is world-readable. However, if you update the
filesets UX-CORE or LAN after installing and configuring HP-UX
DCE, you should verify that /dev/lan* is readable by world.