Planning and Configuring HP-UX DCE 2.0

HP-UX Integrated Login

Integrating DCE with HP-UX Integrated Login

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Integrating DCE with HP-UX Integrated

HP-UX DCE 2.0 provides support for integrating DCE with HP-UX

Integrated Login. The binaries for this functionality are included in the

AUTH-DCE file set.

Overview of HP-UX Integrated Login Features

The HP-UX Integrated Login utilities provide the following features:

• If DCE is configured as the login technology, the Integrated Login

utilities authenticate users via the DCE Security Registry, giving

users DCE credentials upon HP-UX login. This makes it possible for

system administrators to use DCE as the primary source of user

information.

• If DCE is configured as an additional technology, the Integrated

user successfully logs in via another technology.

• In HP-CDE, each window created during an HP-CDE session

inherits the user's DCE credentials. (Otherwise, a user would have to

run dce_login in every window in which DCE operations are

desired.)

• Integrated dtsession refreshes DCE credentials upon unlocking the

HP-CDE session.

• If the DCE backend to the Name Service Switch (NSS-DCE) is

activated, the getpwnam and getgrnam family of calls will retrieve

user account information from the DCE registry (rather than from

/etc/passwd). This allows UNIX utilities to function properly

without requiring that /etc/passed be synchronized with the DCE

registry. For backup purposes, it is still recommended that

/etc/passwd be synchronized with the DCE registry, but this

synchronization can be done less frequently if NSS-DCE is activated.