OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Accessing Registry Objects

— Organization Identiﬁer (ORGID) for the organization

— UUID of the organization

— The account lifespan

— The password minimum length

— The password lifespan

— The password expiration date

— Whether or not passwords can contain spaces

— Whether or not passwords can consist of all nonalphanumeric characters

• For the xattrschema object

— Whether or not the xattrschema can be modiﬁed

41.2.1.2 Authentication Information

Authentication information includes the following categories:

• For registry policies and properties

— The maximum ticket lifetime

— The maximum time for which tickets can be renewed

• For principals

— The maximum ticket lifetime for the principal’s account

— The maximum time for which tickets that are issued to the principal’s account

can be renewed

— The date and time that the principal’s account was last changed (Good Since

Date)

— The date and time that the principal’s account was enabled (Last Changed Date)

— The creator of the principal’s account and account creation date

— Description of the account’s use

— Whether the principal’s account can be issued postdated tickets, forwardable

tickets, renewable tickets, or proxiable tickets

— Whether the DCE Authentication Service can issue tickets to the principal’s

account based on ticket-granting ticket authorization or whether principals must

obtain tickets directly for the service

— Whether the principal’s account can be issued duplicate session keys

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