HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes
Internet and Networking
HP-UX Enhanced Publickey-LDAP
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Summary of Change
The HP-UX 11iv1 ONC EP/NCF Software Pack bundle, ENHKEY, contains new
functionality for publickey LDAP support that allows you to store and manage
public/secret keys in an LDAP directory server. The enhanced feature contains the
following updates:
• Enhance the newkey/chkey commands used to create and change the public/secret
keys in the LDAP database.
• Enhance the getpublickey/getsecretkey APIs used to retrieve the public/secret
keys from the LDAP database. HP-UX 11i v1 ONC EP/NCF Software Pack bundle,
ENHKEY, is now available on the Software Pack (SPK) media for 11i v1 December 2006.
Previously, the enhanced key feature was delivered on the Web.
Support for publickey/secretkey through LDAP requires functionality enhancement in
LDAP-UX Client Services and an enhancement in the ONC product. The LDAP-UX
Integration product version B.04.00 or later supports discovery and management of
publickey/secretkeys in an LDAP directory server.
NOTE You must install the ONC EP/NCF Software Pack bundle, ENHKEY, along with the
LDAP-UX Integration product version B.04.00 or later on your client system to use the
Enhanced Key feature.
Impact
HP-UX enhanced publickey LDAP functionality provides the following impact to
customers:
• Allows users to use the newkey and chkey commands to create and change
public/secret key pairs in the LDAP database.
• Allows users to use getpublickey and getsecretkey APIs to retrieve the public
and secret keys respectively from the LDAP database.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
• For further information, refer to the following documentation available at
http://docs.hp.com:
— LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator’s Guide, Edition 4
(J4269-90053)
— ONC with Publickey LDAP Support Release Notes (B1031-90062)