Contents
1. About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7
HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 OSF DCE Components Included in This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 HP DCE/9000 Features Added by Hewlett-Packard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Features Added at Previous Releases of HP DCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Features Added at HP DCE 1.7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Features Removed at HP DCE 1.6 and 1.7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Version Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Cell Configuration and Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and Online Help. . . . . . . . . . 1-7 DES and DES-Hidden Versions of this Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Limitations of This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Limitations of OSF DCE 1.2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 HP DCE 1.6 and 1.7 Limitations on OSF DCE 1.2.1
Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 System Utilities Not Integrated with DCE Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Interoperability and Compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10 Binary Compatibility with Previous HP DCE Releases. . . . . . . . . . 1-10 Source Code Compatibility with Previous HP DCE Releases . . . . . 1-11 Interoperability with Other Implementations of OSF DCE . . . . . . 1-11 Interoperability of the DES and DES-Hidden Versions. . . . . . . . . . 1-12 Kerberos Authentication Protocol Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 DCE Support for Kerberos Applications and Configuration
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 Remote Services File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 Support for Secure Internet Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
DCE GSS-API Interoperability with MIT and Third-Party
Kerberos Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15
Notes, Cautions and Warnings Regarding This Release . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16
dcecp host Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16
Security and Remote Login Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16