Configuring centralized authorization and changelist servers

As an alternative to the options at the Introduction to multi-site deployment architectures, it is possible to use a collection of specialized servers that have a shared user base. Two use cases are:

• to simplify user authentication
• to guarantee unique change list numbers across the organization.

The following subsections explain how you create and use these servers: P4AUTH for centralized authentication and P4CHANGE to generate unique changelist numbers.