OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Managing DCE Users
• Setting certain attributes or policies on all newly created principals and accounts to
match the site’s policies. For example, you could set principals to have a
pwd_val_type ERA and set accounts to generate random passwords.
• Setting up site-specific defaults for passwords (to be changed by the user later),
groups, organizations, principal directories, and so on.
• Supporting a user modify command. Such a command could change group or
organization information or some other attributes associated with users.
Part 1 of this guide discusses ways to create new dcecp objects or modify existing
objects written with the dcecp language.
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