obrennan@CC3.CC.UMR.EDU (obrennan) (11/27/90)
Is there currently Yellow-pages support for the Apollo systems (in place of the Apollo registry). If so, what do I loose? I still want the standard Domain Network Services and for the network to act just as it would with an Apollo registry, but want to allow for equiv.hosts and so on. I have heard nothing about support for Yellow-pages on the Apollos, just DCE's Passwd Etc. Will Passwd Etc work with Yellow-pages on other systems? Am I asking the right questions :)? Any help is appreciated. Gerry O'Brennan Programmer/Analyst II Computing Services University of Missouri - Rolla ------------------------------ obrennan@apollo.cc.umr.edu c0022@umrvmb.umr.edu ------------------------------
pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato) (11/29/90)
In article <9011261826.AA00306@cc2.cc.umr.edu>, obrennan@CC3.CC.UMR.EDU (obrennan) writes: |> Is there currently Yellow-pages support for the Apollo systems (in place |> of the Apollo registry). If so, what do I loose? I still want the standard |> Domain Network Services and for the network to act just as it would with |> an Apollo registry, but want to allow for equiv.hosts and so on. |> |> I have heard nothing about support for Yellow-pages on the Apollos, just |> DCE's Passwd Etc. Will Passwd Etc work with Yellow-pages on other systems? |> Am I asking the right questions :)? Any help is appreciated. |> |> |> Gerry O'Brennan |> Programmer/Analyst II |> Computing Services |> University of Missouri - Rolla |> ------------------------------ |> obrennan@apollo.cc.umr.edu |> c0022@umrvmb.umr.edu |> ------------------------------ Domain/OS does not currently support YP - and YP can never be used to replace the registry. Domain/OS does not use unix id's in the file system, it uses UIDs (64 bit unique identifiers). Conventional unix passwd files (and therefore YP) do not maintain this information for accounts. The Domain/OS registry does. The DCE Security component (the user registry, authentication service (Kerberos), privilege service, access control facility and authenticated RPC) also maintain unique identifiers for principals (128 bit UUIDs). It is not integrated with YP. There is no reason that a system that runs the DCE cannot also run YP (or NIT) for maps other than the passwd map. It simply cannot use YP to manage the account database since the DCE security component subsumes this task. -- Joe Pato Cooperative Object Computing Operation Hewlett-Packard Company pato@apollo.hp.com