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- Network Working Group T. Tignor
- Request for Comments: 1373 ISI
- October 1992
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- PORTABLE DUAs
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- Status of this Memo
-
- This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
- not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is
- unlimited.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- This document comes in two parts. The first part is for regular
- people who wish to set up their own DUAs (Directory User Interfaces)
- to access the Directory. It includes some brief notes on the
- operation of the DUAs and instructions for their creation and
- installation. The instructions are given in an easy-to-follow, step-
- by-step format. It is fully expected that the user will be able to
- perform the necessary operations as he reads through the instructions
- for the first time and have a working DUA when he finishes. The
- second part is for ISODE-maintainers wishing to provide portable DUAs
- to users. This part gives instructions in a similar but longer,
- step-by-step format. It is fully expected that the maintainer will be
- able to perform the necessary operations as he reads through the
- instructions for the first time and have a working DUA
- package/supporting service when he finishes.
-
- The document currently has four sub-parts for each larger part. The
- sub-parts detail the following DUAs: WHOIS, "de," dixie's "ud" and
- ISODE's "doog." It is intended that additional sub-parts will be
- added to the document as new, portable DUA packages are designed.
-
- Where pertinent, the document assumes ISODE 8.0 is being used.
-
- 1. Instructions for DUA-Users
-
- WHOIS
-
- A WHOIS interface to X.500 may be available on any ISODE-resident
- machine which also runs a DSA (Directory System Agent.) Check with
- your local, ISODE-maintainer. If the service is available, users can
- access the Directory with the following command:
-
- whois -h <hostname> <name in UFN format>
-
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- <hostname> indicates the name of the host machine offering the WHOIS
- interface, surrounded by quotes. <name in UFN format> refers to a
- special, user-friendly syntax developed by Steve Hardcastle-Kille.
- UFN format is a comma-separated list of DN component values.
- (Attribute types are omitted.) The criteria for identifying DN
- components in UFN is often less stringent than normal. For example:
-
- @c=US@st=California@o=Information Sciences
- Institute@ou=HPCC@cn=Tom Tignor
-
- could be uniquely specified in UFN syntax as
-
- tignor,isi,ca,us
-
- So to find this entry through WHOIS, one would type:
-
- whois -h "gum.isi.edu" tignor,isi,ca,us
-
- See Steve Hardcastle-Kille's Work in Progress, "User Friendly Naming"
- for details.
-
-
- De
-
- Use of the "de" DUA is fully explained by the program's help section.
- New users should type "?" at the first prompt after installing and
- running the de executable.
-
- The de executable can be created and installed by the following
- simple steps:
-
- If you do not have a file called ".unknown_tailor" in your home
- directory, create it now. This file should contain the following
- single line:
- etcpath: <fullpathname>/isode/etc/
-
- where <fullpathname> is the full path name of your $HOME
- directory.
-
- If you do not have a directory $HOME/isode/bin, where "$HOME" is
- your home directory, create it now.
-
- ftp the compressed tar file "de-portable.tar.Z" from your local,
- ISODE-resident machine and put it in your isode directory. If
- you cannot find this file locally, it is available by anonymous
-
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- ftp from "gum.isi.edu" in the "x500" directory.
-
- cd $HOME/isode
-
- uncompress < de-portable.tar.Z | tar xf -
-
- If your name is listed in the Directory, edit the de/detailor
- file and add a line reading:
- username: <yourDN>
-
- where <yourDN> indicates your Distinguished Name in the
- Directory.
-
- cp de/detailor de/etc/detailor
-
- Edit the CONFIG.make variables BINDIR, ETCDIR and SBINDIR to
- refer to your isode/bin, isode/etc and isode/etc directories,
- respectively. (The isode/etc directory was created by the
- previous command.)
-
- ranlib libdsap.a
-
- ranlib libisode.a
-
- cd de
-
- ./make all
-
- ./make inst-all
-
- There is one error you may encounter during this procedure, following
- the "./make all" command:
-
- "Redeclaration of sprintf." in general.h
-
- If this error occurs, the following sub-procedure will fix the
- problem:
-
- Invoke your editor for the file ../h/general.h
-
- Search for the string "sprintf".
-
- Cut the line with the "#endif" string which follows the line
- reading:
- char *sprintf ();
-
- Paste the line under the line which reads "#endif". This second
- #endif line is exactly three lines below the current line.
-
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- Save the file and quit the editor.
-
- Type "./make all" again. It should now compile smoothly. Finish up by
- typing "./make inst-all".
-
-
- Dixie/Ud
-
- The "ud" DUA is designed for users doing most of their X.500 queries
- in one branch of the DIT (Directory Information Tree.) The DUA
- operates from a predefined "base," a position in the DIT one or more
- branches above the entries to be queried. The base is usually an
- organization name, such as:
-
- @c=US@st=California@o=Information Sciences Institute
-
- Ud starts with a preset base. (See below.) But this base can be
- changed with the "cb" command. "cb" takes the full DN of the new base
- as an argument. For example:
-
- cb @c=GB@o=University College London
-
- With a preset base, searching is easy. The user finds entries below
- the base with the "find" command. "find" takes the last component of
- the DN of the entry as its sole argument. The criteria for the
- argument is very loose. The partial matching performed by ud should
- return the desired data or a clarification request if the name is at
- all close to the real thing.
-
- For example, with a base "@c=US@st=California@o=Information Sciences
- Institute", the RDN
-
- ou=HPCC@cn=Tom Tignor
-
- could be found by entering
-
- find tignor
-
- at the ud prompt.
-
- Other commands in ud are briefly described by the program's help
- section. Interested users should type "?" at the first prompt, after
- installing and running the executable.
-
- "Ud" comes with the "dixie" package, a mini-environment designed
- specifically to support lightweight Directory access. Using ud
- requires that a dixie server is running along with a DSA on your
- local, ISODE-resident machine. Before retrieving the dixie package,
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- check with your local DSA manager to see that the dixie server is up
- and running.
-
- Once you're sure that everything is set up at the DSA-manager's end,
- the ud executable can be created and installed by the following
- simple steps:
-
- If you do not have a directory $HOME/isode/bin, where "$HOME" is
- your home directory, create it now.
-
- ftp (anonymously) the compressed tar file "dixie-<version
- #>.tar.Z", where <version #> is the number of the latest
- release, from "terminator.cc.umich.edu" and put it in your isode
- directory. The file is available in the "x500" directory on
- terminator.
-
- cd $HOME/isode
-
- uncompress < dixie-<version #>.tar.Z | tar xf -
-
- This creates the dixie environment. As a user interested in ud only,
- there are a number of things in the package that will be taking up
- space to no purpose. The following sequence of commands will get rid
- of them.
-
- cd dixie-<version #>
-
- rm -r dos
-
- rm -r macintosh
-
- rm -r server
-
- rm -r vms
-
- cd ..
-
- That done, we continue to bring ud to life.
-
- cd dixie-<version #>
-
- Edit the file "ud/ud.h". There are two constants for which you
- will need to supply new values: DEFAULT_BASE and DEFAULT_SERVER.
- DEFAULT_BASE identifies ud's "base" upon startup, as described
- above. It takes a quoted DN as a value, e.g.,
- "@c=US@st=California@o=Information Sciences Institute".
- DEFAULT_SERVER identifies the machine which hosts the dixie
- server, i.e. your local, ISODE-resident machine. This constant
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- takes a quoted string as a value, e.g., "gum.isi.edu".
-
- Edit the file "Makefile". Set the value of the BINDIR variable
- to "<mypath>/isode/bin", where <mypath> is the full pathname of
- the user's home directory.
-
- make depend-ud
-
- make ud-only
-
- make inst-ud
-
-
- Doog
-
- The "doog" DUA retrieves information on entries supplied by the user
- in UFN format. UFN format refers to a special, user-friendly syntax
- developed by Steve Hardcastle-Kille. UFN format is a comma-separated
- list of DN component values. (Attribute types are omitted.) The
- criteria for identifying DN components in UFN is often less stringent
- than normal. For example:
-
- @c=US@st=California@o=Information Sciences
- Institute@ou=HPCC@cn=Tom Tignor
-
- could be specified in UFN syntax (and doog) as
-
- tignor,isi,ca,us
-
- See Steve Hardcastle-Kille's Work in Progress, "User Friendly Naming"
- for details.
-
- Other commands in doog are briefly described by the program's help
- section. Interested users should type "?" at the first prompt, after
- installing and running the executable.
-
- The doog executable can be created and installed by the following
- simple steps:
-
- If you do not have a file called ".unknown_tailor" in your home
- directory, create it now. This file should contain the following
- single line:
- etcpath: <fullpathname>/isode/etc/
-
- where <fullpathname> is the full path name of your $HOME
- directory.
-
- If you do not have a directory $HOME/isode/bin, where "$HOME" is
-
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- your home directory, create it now.
-
- ftp the compressed tar file "doog-portable.tar.Z" from your
- local, ISODE-resident machine and put it in your isode
- directory. If you cannot find this file locally, it is available
- by anonymous ftp from "gum.isi.edu" in the "x500" directory.
-
- cd $HOME/isode
-
- uncompress < doog-isode-8.0.tar.Z | tar xf -
-
- Edit the CONFIG.make variables BINDIR, ETCDIR and SBINDIR to
- refer to your isode/bin, isode/etc and isode/etc directories,
- respectively. (The isode/etc directory was created by the
- previous command.)
-
- ranlib libdsap.a
-
- ranlib libisode.a
-
- cd doog
-
- ./make all
-
- ./make inst-all
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- 2. Instructions for ISODE-Maintainers
-
- WHOIS
-
- "WHOIS" is a simple program already available at most UNIX
- workstations and hosts. It is normally used to access the database of
- users at NIC.DDN.MIL. The instructions below explain how to use WHOIS
- to access data in the White Pages Pilot X.500 database. These
- instructions are taken nearly word for word from the "PSI White Pages
- Pilot Project Administrator's Guide," section 2.8.3.
-
- Choose a machine in your local environment which is running the pilot
- project software. This machine will offer the white pages service via
- a network port offering an emulation of the WHOIS service.
-
- On this machine, modify the /etc/services file so that it contains an
- entry like this:
-
- whitepages 17005/tcp
-
- Next, edit the file /etc/servers so that it has an entry like this:
-
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- whitepages tcp $(SBINDIR)in.whitepages
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- Because most user interfaces to WHOIS, e.g., whois(1c), do not allow
- the user to specify a special port, you should probably also add this
- line as well:
-
- whois tcp$(SBINDIR)in.whitepages
-
- If you already have a line for whois in the servers file, then you
- are already running a WHOIS service, and you should NOT add a second
- whois line. This machine is not a good choice for running the white
- pages via WHOIS emulation.
-
- Note that on newer systems derived from Berkeley UNIX, /etc/servers
- is called /etc/inetd.conf.
-
- The whitepages Command
-
- On those systems which are to access the white pages via the network
- and not locally (i.e., those systems which are not running the pilot
- project software), you should determine how the user invokes the
- WHOIS service via the network. For UNIX systems, you should provide a
- shell script like this:
-
- : run this script through /bin/sh
-
- exec /usr/ucb/whois -h wp.psi.net "$*"
-
- where the name of a host running the pilot project software is
- substituted for whitepages, e.g., wp.psi.net. This host must have the
- files /etc/services and /etc/servers edited as described above.
-
-
- De
-
- The compressed tar file for "de" can be created by the following
- sequence of commands. (Note: In the instructions which follow,
- <toplevel> indicates the top level of the ISODE distribution.)
-
- cd <toplevel>/others/quipu/uips
-
- Edit the de/detailor file to set the following options:
-
- dsa_address: (the address of your DSA)
- default_country: (your country)
- default_org: (your organization)
-
- cp de/make temp1
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- Edit the de/make file so that the last line reads as follows:
-
- exec $M TOPDIR=../ -f ../CONFIG.make -f Makefile ${1+"$@"}
-
- tar -cf de-portable.tar de/*
-
- mv temp1 de/make
-
- mv de-portable.tar <aboveETCDIR>
- (Here, <aboveETCDIR> is the directory immediately above
- ETCDIR.)
-
- cd <aboveETCDIR>
-
- tar -rf de-portable.tar etc/dsaptailor etc/isomacros
- etc/oidtable.at etc/oidtable.oc etc/oidtable.gen
-
- mv de-portable.tar <toplevel>
-
- cd <toplevel>
-
- cp config/CONFIG.make .
-
- tar -rf de-portable.tar h/* h/quipu/* util/* CONFIG.make
- libdsap.a libisode.a
-
- rm CONFIG.make
-
- compress de-portable.tar
-
- The compressed tar file for de will appear in the top level directory
- of the ISODE distribution as "de-portable.tar.Z".
-
-
- Dixie/Ud
-
- The latest version of the dixie distribution is available by
- anonymous ftp at "terminator.cc.umich.edu" in the "x500" directory.
- The file is named "dixie-<version #>.tar.Z", where <version #> is the
- number of the latest release.
-
- In order for anyone to use dixie clients, there must be a running
- dixie server which they can connect to. To set up the dixie server,
- the DSA manager should take the dixie package and explode/uncompress
- it in the top level directory of the ISODE distribution. This is done
- with the following command:
-
- uncompress < dixie-<version #>.tar.Z | tar xf -
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- where <version #> is the version number of your dixie package. This
- will create a "dixie-<version #>" directory. The dixie server, dixie
- library and any DUAs included with the package will be in this
- directory branch. Software to support dixie on machines other than
- UNIX is included as well. This software is stored in the directories
- "dos", "macintosh" and "vms". UNIX users should feel free to delete
- these directories and all their contents. Commands of the form:
-
- rm -r <dirname>
-
- where <dirname> is the directory name, should accomplish this task.
-
- In the top level of the dixie distribution is a file called
- "Makefile". The file holds several variables which should be
- configured to match those of your ISODE environment.
-
-
- BINDIR ISODEINCLUDEDIR
- ETCDIR LIBDIR
- INCLUDEDIR ISODELIBS
- INSTLIBDIR
-
-
- In the "server" directory below the top level of the dixie
- distribution is another "Makefile" file. Configure the ISODELIBS
- variable in this file, as well.
-
- After setting these variables, cd to the top level of the dixie
- distribution and type the following commands:
-
- make depend-server
- make server-only
- make inst-server
-
-
- This will create and install the dixie server in your ETCDIR. cd to
- the ETCDIR and type "dixie" to start the server.
-
-
- Doog
-
- The compressed tar file for "doog" can be created by the following
- sequence of commands. (Note: In the instructions which follow,
- <toplevel> indicates the top level of the ISODE distribution.)
-
- cd <toplevel>/others/quipu/uips
-
- cp doog/make temp1
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- Edit the doog/make file so that the last line reads as follows:
-
- exec $M TOPDIR=../ -f ../CONFIG.make -f Makefile ${1+"$@"}
-
- cp doog/query/make temp2
-
- Edit the doog/query/make file so that the last line reads as
- follows:
-
- exec $M TOPDIR=../../ -f ../../CONFIG.make -f Makefile
- ${1+"$@"}
-
- tar -cf doog-portable.tar doog/*
-
- mv temp1 doog/make
-
- mv temp2 doog/query/make
-
- mv doog-portable.tar ../../..
-
- cd ../../..
-
- cp config/CONFIG.make .
-
- tar -rf doog-portable.tar h/* h/quipu/* util/* CONFIG.make
- libdsap.a libisode.a
-
- rm CONFIG.make
-
- mv doog-portable.tar <aboveETCDIR>
- (Here, <aboveETCDIR> is the directory immediately above
- ETCDIR.)
-
- cd <aboveETCDIR>
-
- tar -rf doog-portable.tar etc/dsaptailor etc/isomacros
- etc/oidtable.at etc/oidtable.gen etc/oidtable.oc
-
- compress doog-portable.tar
-
- The compressed tar file for doog will appear in the directory
- immediately above ETCDIR as "doog-portable.tar.Z".
-
- Security Considerations
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- Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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- Author's Address
-
- Tom Tignor
- University of Southern California
- Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292
-
- Phone: (310) 822-1511
- EMail: tpt2@isi.edu
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