Overview - Setting Up the Registry
This topic describes the steps that you take to set up the registry in the DCE Security Service. Some of these steps are automatically handled by the dce_config script during DCE installation and configuration; others are performed by you, using the DCE utilities and control programs. The steps for setting up the registry are as follows:
1. Plan where the security service components are to be located in your network.
2. Create the master registry database (performed by the dce_config script during system configuration).
3. Start the master replica (performed by the dce_config script during system configuration).
4. Populate the registry database (performed by you using the dcecp rgy_edit command).
· Set policies and properties.
· Add names and accounts.
5. Create a slave database and start the slave replica (performed by the dce_config script during system configuration).
6. Set up cron to run passwd_export on all of the DCE-based machines to ensure that the local password and group files are kept consistent with the registry (performed by you using standard UNIX commands). The passwd_export command is described in Performing Routine Maintenance.
Because the registry uses the Cell Directory Service (CDS) to obtain information about network resources, this topic assumes that your network is configured properly for CDS operation.