/sys$common/syshlp/helplib.hlb DCE_SECURITY, Admin Intro, DCE$IMPORT  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

 The DCE IMPORT utility allows you to create principal and account
 entries in a DCE registry based on accounts in an existing OpenVMS
 authorization file. It is used for the following purposes:

 o  To populate the DCE registry when a new DCE cell is first established

 o  To add entries to an existing DCE registry when a new OpenVMS system
    joins an existing DCE cell

 o  To add entries to an existing DCE registry when new  users have joined
    an OpenVMS sytem that is already part of an existing DCE cell

 The DCE IMPORT utility also creates and maintains an exclude list.
 The exclude list contains the OpenVMS usernames of users who do not
 have, and do not require, a DCE account. This feature allows DCE IMPORT
 to skip over these users during DCE IMPORT operations.

    NOTE:

    The DCE IMPORT utility described in this section cannot be satisfied by
    the import function shipped with OSF DCE because of substantial
    differences between OpenVMS and UNIX user registry data.

 Passwords cannot be imported.  Instead, the automatic synchronization
 feature that occurs during integrated login is used to import user
 passwords.

 See the Digital DCE for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS Alpha Reference Guide
 for detailed descriptions of the DCE IMPORT commands.

    RELATED INFORMATION
      COMMANDS: DCE$EXPORT

  Additional Information (explode) :

• File Info
• Running IMPORT
• Messages
• ADD
• DELETE
• EXIT
• IMPORT
• SHOW