Transition of ACL Managers

OSD DCE 1.2.1 provides ACL management facilities within libdce. The sec_acl_mgr API is obsolete, and it is no longer necessary to write an ACL manager. Refer to the OSF DCE documentation to determine how to use the new dce_acl API to greatly reduce the amount of specialized ACL code that might have to be dealt with.

Application builders may want to try building their existing applications against DCE 1.2.1 before migrating their ACL management layer to the DCE supported dce_acl API. DCE 1.2.1 includes a backward-compatible set of header files that match the header files used by applications in previous DCE releases. Replace any instance of:

#include <dce/daclmgr.h> with #include <dce/daclmgrv0.h>

In makefiles and in application program, change all instances of:

dalmgr to daclmgrv0

These header files are provided as a transition aid only and should be used only until application is migrated to the dce_acl API.