Rational ClearCase and Windows domains
The operating system provides the details of user identity and group membership
that determine a user’s rights to run operations on versioned artifacts in Rational® ClearCase® VOBs and
views. On Windows® computers, user and group identity are established
when the user logs on to a Windows NT® or Active Directory domain.
These topics explain what a domain administrator needs to know about the user,
group, and resource accounts required by Rational ClearCase,
and about the effect of domain trust relationships on Rational ClearCase.
These topics are intended for domain administrators who have experience
with Windows
NT domains, Active Directory domains, or both, and are familiar with Microsoft®’s
domain administration and account maintenance tools.
- Domain configurations compatible with Rational ClearCase
Rational ClearCase is
compatible with a wide variety of domain configurations. The simplest configuration
is a single domain that includes all users, groups, and computers; this configuration
entails the least administrative overhead, but other common configurations
work equally well.
- Domain user and group accounts
Any Rational ClearCase community
must define a group to which all users who perform routine Rational ClearCase operations
using a common set of VOBs and views belong.
- Multiple user account domain support
If your existing domain configuration requires it, you can enable Rational ClearCase access
for users and computers in multiple domains. Active Directory provides native
support for this capability. Rational ClearCase also
has a proxy group feature that you can use to provide this capability in Windows
NT domains.
- Conversion to Active Directory
As with any enterprise-scale application in a Windows network, Rational ClearCase is
affected when the network is converted from Windows
NT domains to Active Directory domains. These topics explain
how this conversion affects Rational ClearCase and how to manage users, groups, hosts, and data during and
after the conversion.