OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Core Components
on creating ACLs for unauthenticated users.)
12.4 CDS User Interfaces
CDS has several entities that can be managed via user interfaces that are provided in
DCE. A CDS entity is any individually manageable piece of the CDS software. CDS
directories, soft links, and object entries are the most common entities that you manage
with the DCE user interfaces. Some object entries, though, are normally managed
through the client application that creates them.
The DCE control program provides many commands for managing CDS entities.
Chapter 15 of this guide contains information about these commands.
CDS also comes with two other user interfaces:
• The CDS control program (cdscp)
• The browser
The CDS control program, which is available on all clerks and servers, is an interface
that accepts commands targeted for these entities and directory replicas. However, most
of cdscp commands have equivalents in dcecp, and you are encouraged to use the dcecp
commands instead. The small number of cdscp commands that must use for operations
on CDS servers, clerks, and replicas are described in Chapter 15.
The browser is a tool for viewing the content and structure of a namespace. It runs on
workstations with windowing software that is based on the OSF/Motif graphical user
interface. Using a mouse to manipulate pull-down menus, you can view the directory
structure of a namespace, view child directories of a particular directory, view the object
entries and soft links in a directory, and set a filter to display only object entries of a
particular class. (For users who do not have windowing software, similar functions are
available with both dcecp and cdscp.)
In addition to dcecp, cdscp, and the browser, other DCE user interfaces allow access to
and management of CDS names. For example, users can control access to CDS
directories and their contents by using an ACL editor such as the dcecp acl object or the
acl_edit program which is supplied with the DCE Security Service. RPC application
programmers can create server entries, groups, and configuration profiles in the cell’s
namespace with the dcecp or rpccp programs. (See Part 3 (RPC) and Part 6 (Security) of
this guide for details on how to use these interfaces.)
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