OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Appendix A. The DCE Cell Namespace
This appendix describes the names that CDS and the DCE Security Service use within
the DCE cell namespace. These namespace entries are created during initial DCE
configuration.
In the tables that follow, the ‘‘CDS Class’’ field is either used internally by the
CDS_Clearinghouse entry and the RPC NSI. The ‘‘Well Known’’ field specifies
whether the last component of a name is an architecturally required name. The ‘‘Default
ACLS’’ field specifies the ACLs created by running the DCE configuration script.
The hostname, lclhostname, cellname, and creator entries are defined as follows:
• hostname
This is a cell-relative hostname. For example, the hostname for a host named
machine1.abc.com is machine1. Note that for cells with subdomains, a directory
structure is possible. For example, the host apollo.mercury.acs.cmu.edu can have a
hostname of acs/mercury/apollo.
• lclhostname
This is the single component hostname. This name is always the least significant
component of the hostname. The lclhostname for the examples given previously are
machine1 and apollo.
• cellname
This is the global name of the cell, without the special character string /.../; for
example, seattle.abc.com or C=US/O=ABC/OU=Seattle.
• creator
This is the name of the principal that created the cell.
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