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NAME dced_intro - Introduction to the DCE Host daemon routines DESCRIPTION This introduces the DCE Host Daemon application programming interface: the dced API. This API gives management applications remote access to various data, servers, and services on DCE hosts. Servers manage their own configuration in the local dced by using the routines starting with dce_server, introduced in the dce_server_intro reference page. THE DCED API NAMING CONVENTIONS All of the dced API routine names begin with the dced_ prefix. This API contains some specialized routines that operate on services represented by the following keywords in the routine names: hostdata The host data management service stores host-specific data such as the host name, the host's cell name, and other data, and it provides access to these data items. server The server control service configures, starts, and stops servers, among other things. Applications must distinguish two general states of server control: server configuration (srvrconf) and server execution (srvrexec). secval The security validation service maintains a host's principal identity and ensures applications that the DCE Security daemon is genuine. keytab The key table management service remotely manages key tables. The dced also provides the endpoint mapper service which has its own API, described with the RPC API. These routines begin with rpc_ep and rpc_mgmt_ep. Since some of the dced daemon's services require the same operations (but on different data types), the dced API also contains generic routines that may operate on more than one of the above services. For example, you use the routine dced_object_read() to read a data item (object) from the hostdata, srvrconf, srvrexec, or keytab services. FILES dce/dced_base.h dce/dced.h dce/dced_data.h dce/rpctypes.idl dce/passwd.idl dce/sec_attr_base.idl RELATED INFORMATION ROUTINES: dced_* API. BOOKS: OSF DCE Application Development Guide
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