Designating a Local Configuration Administrator

The Gradient PC-DCE product includes a TCL/TK script that allows the cell administrator to designate a local administrator who can configure a NetCrusader security client on host machines. This allows local administrators to configure a full client into a cell without knowing the cell administrator password. This script, the preconfig.tcl script, now includes NetCrusader/Web support.

You can designate a local configuration administrator by principal name or group name. If you designate a group, any member of the group can be a local administrator.

For more information on this script, see the NetCrusader/Web Installation and Operation Guide and the PC-DCE documentation.

Note: Designating a local configuration administrator is sometimes referred to as a preconfiguration script because the script does some of the configuration ahead of time, before the local administrator finishes the configuration. It is also sometimes referred to as a split configuration because the cell administrator uses the script to perform some of the configuration and then splits off the rest of the configuration tasks to a local administrator, who performs further administrator tasks on the remote client host.