Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)

swcopy does not automatically notify you when multiple versions of a product exist. swcopy only
notifies you when an exact version exists and will be skipped (or recopied)
Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
To make the software in a depot available for use across a network by other SD-UX commands,
you must register the depot. You can also unregister a depot if you do not want it to be available.
Depots are registered or unregistered in these ways:
• The swcopy command automatically registers newly created depots. (You can turn this function
on or off with the register_new_depot option.)
• The swremove command automatically unregisters a depot after removing all the software the
depot contains.
• The swreg command explicitly registers or unregisters depots.
The swreg command lets you explicitly register or unregister depots when the automatic registration
features of swcopy or swremove are not enough. For example, you can use swreg to:
• Make a CD-ROM or other media available as a registered depot.
• Register a depot that was created with swpackage.
• Unregister a depot to restrict network access without physically removing the depot from a
host.
Register Media or Create Network Depot?
When does it make sense to use your software media as a registered depot versus using the media
to create a network depot? In general, using media as a depot makes sense for small-scale use,
such as when only one or two other systems need to access the media. If more systems will need
to access the media, performance will be better if you create a network depot from the individual
media. See “Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples” (page 97) for an example.
Registration and Security
Because SD-UX stores its objects in the file system, someone could build a “Trojan Horse” file system
image of a software depot. This could breech the security of any system that installed products
from the false depot. To protect systems from such a situation, SD-UX requires that depots be
registered before software may be installed or copied from it. This check is always performed
before granting access, except when swinstall is run by the local superuser.
NOTE: Registration of a depot does not enforce any access restrictions. Access enforcement is
left to SD security (see Chapter 9: “SD-UX Security ” (page 141)). Registration with swreg requires
insert permission in the host’s ACL.
Authorization
To register a new depot or to unregister an existing depot, swreg requires read permission on
the depot in question and insert permission on the host. To unregister a registered depot, the swreg
command requires write permission on the host. See Chapter 9: “SD-UX Security ” (page 141) for
more information on permissions.
Using swreg
swreg Syntax
swreg -l level [-u] [-v] [-C session_file] [-f object_file]
[-S session_file] [-t target_file] [-x option=value]
[-X option_file] [objects_to_register] [@ target_selections]
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