Entegrity DCE and DFS for Linux Installation and Configuration Guide

Software Version 2.3, Modified January, 2004

Contents

Notices

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Product Licensing

2.1 Installation Overview
2.2 Prerequisites
2.3 Error Recovery During Installation
2.4 Installing DCE
2.5 Installing Licenses
2.6 Uninstalling DCE
2.7 Disabling DCE

3.1 Before You Configure DCE
3.2 Overview of the DCE Cell

3.2.1 Creating a Cell
3.2.2 Joining a Cell
3.2.3 Defining a Cell Name
3.2.4 Defining a Hostname
3.2.5 Intercell Naming

3.3 Using the dcesetup Utility
3.4 Setting Environment Variables in setup_state

4.1 Error Recovery During Configuration
4.2 Configuring a New Cell
4.3 Configuring Your System as a DCE Client with Runtime Services

4.3.1 To Update the Client's CDS Cache

4.4 Split Server Configuration (Adding a Master CDS Server)

4.4.1 Creating a New Cell and Master Security Server
4.4.2 Creating a Master CDS Server on Another System
4.4.3 Completing the Master Security Server Configuration

5.1 Before You Configure DFS

5.1.1 Verifying That the DCE and DFS Packages Have Been Installed
5.1.2 Verifying Necessary Privileges

5.2 Identifying Your System's Role in the DFS Environment
5.3 Preparing for the Configuration: Worksheet

5.3.1 Information for DFS System Control Machine Configuration
5.3.2 Information for FLDB Server Configuration
5.3.3 Information for DFS File Server Configuration
5.3.4 Information for DFS Client Configuration

5.4 Configuring Servers and Clients

5.4.1 Configuring the System Control Machine
5.4.2 Configuring the DFS Primary FLDB Server
5.4.3 Configuring a DFS File Server
5.4.4 Configuring a DFS Client
5.4.5 Removing DFS

5.5 Modifying the Configuration for Startup

6.1 Overview of Cell Re-Configuration
6.2 Adding a Replica CDS Server

6.2.1 Removing a Replica CDS Server

6.3 Adding a Replica Security Server

6.3.1 Removing a Replica Security Server

6.4 Adding a DTS Local Server

6.4.1 Change from DTS Local Server to DTS clerk

6.5 Adding a DTS Global Server

6.5.1 To change from DTS Global Server to DTS Clerk

6.6 Adding a Null Time Provider

6.6.1 Removing a Null Time Provider

6.7 Adding an NTP Time Provider

6.7.1 Removing an NTP Time Provider

6.8 Enabling Auditing

6.8.1 Disabling Auditing

6.9 Adding Password Management Server

6.9.1 Removing a Password Management Server

A.1 Blank Worksheet

B.1 DFS Setup Configuration Commands

C.1 The GNOME Desktop Environment

C.1.1 Accessing the GNOME Main Menu
C.1.2 Setting Time
C.1.3 Other GNOME Tips

C.2 Packages and Files
C.3 Logging Out
C.4 Search Tools

D.1 PAM
D.2 Name Service Switch

E.1 Controlling CDS Cache Operations

E.1.1 CDS Cache Overview

E.1.1.1 Cache Implementation
E.1.1.2 Lifetime of Cached Information
E.1.1.3 CDS Cache Size
E.1.1.4 How a Client Selects a Clearinghouse
E.1.1.5 How a Client Builds the Clearinghouse List
E.1.1.6 How a Client Sorts the Clearinghouse List

E.1.2 Using CDS Preferencing to Control Sorting of the Clearinghouse List

E.1.2.1 How CDS Preferencing Works
E.1.2.2 Creating the Preference File
E.1.2.3 Viewing Ranks
E.1.2.4 CDS Preferencing Example

E.1.3 Refreshing Cached Application Server Data

F.1 Understanding Trust Relationships

F.1.1 Direct Trust Relationships

F.1.1.1 User Access to the Foreign Cell
F.1.1.2 Controlling Authorization for Objects in the Cell

F.2 Pros and Cons of Intercell Trust Relationships

F.2.1 Simplified Administration
F.2.2 Simplicity for the User
F.2.3 Security Implications

F.3 Establishing Intercell Communications

F.3.1 Establishing Intercell Lookup
F.3.2 Establishing Intercell Trust

F.3.2.1 What Happens When You Create an Account for the Foreign Cell

F.3.3 Verifying Account Creation
F.3.4 Modifying the Account Valid Flag
F.3.5 Adding Entries for Replica Servers to DNS

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