Overview - Managing DCE Users
One of the most frequent DCE administration tasks is likely to be managing users in your DCE environment. Corporate reorganizations, changing business needs, and fluctuating economics all exert pressures causing users to come and go or to move between various groups or organizations.
DCE users represent a big part of what DCE is designed to support; the DCE services authenticate and admit some while denying access to those who are unauthorized. Indeed, users have complex management requirements; their information is spread among multiple services that help validate and control their activities. User information includes principal names, group and organization information, account information, and information in CDS.
The DCE control program includes separate administration objects for managing each piece of user information in a DCE cell. While these separate objects might be very useful for making minor adjustments to certain user information, their constant use for repetitive tasks such as adding and removing users from a cell would prove quite tedious. A simpler method relies on the user task object that you can use to more easily create, delete, and show user information in a DCE cell. Online help for this object is available using the user help and user operations commands in dcecp.