DCE Authentication Service Servers and Clients
The authentication service consists of the registry database, security servers, and security clients. A security client communicates with a security server (dcelocal/bin/secd) to request information and operations. The security servers access the registry database to perform queries and updates and to validate user logins. To gain access to the registry database, the authentication service must talk to the registry service. The following figure is a simplified representation of the relationship between security clients, servers, and the registry database.
Machines, Servers, and the Database
