OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Core Components
following cautions.
Never set the account’s pwdvalid attribute to no (invalid). For standard accounts, setting
the attribute to no causes the user to be prompted to change their passwords at the next
login. Passwords for cross-cell authentication accounts, however, are shared by the
authentication services in two cells. If you change one, this synchronization is destroyed
and cross-cell communications end. If you want to change the passwords that are shared
by the authentication services, you must rerun the registry connect command to recreate
the accounts and create the properly synchronized passwords.
Generally, do not delete the accounts or the account’s principals unless you are breaking
the peer-to-peer relationship with the cell. If one of the accounts is deleted, you must
run the registry connect command to recreate both accounts and restore the peer-to-peer
relationship.
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