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