About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7
Limitations of This Release
Limitations of This Release
Some of the limitations described in this section reflect limitations of OSF DCE 1.2.1; others are limitations specific to this release.
Limitations of OSF DCE 1.2.1
Following are limitations of OSF DCE 1.2.1:
•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
•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.
HP DCE 1.6 and 1.7 Limitations on OSF DCE 1.2.1 Functionality
The following OSF DCE 1.2.1 functionality is not supported in HP DCE
1.6 or 1.7:
•Distributed File Service
•Global Directory Service
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