RFC 1373 (rfc1373) - Page 2 of 12


Portable DUAs



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RFC 1373             DSA Support for Portable DUAs          October 1992


    indicates the name of the host machine offering the WHOIS
   interface, surrounded by quotes.  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:   /isode/etc/

        where  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






Tignor