HP-UX 11i September 2005 Release Notes

Internet and Networking
LDAP-UX Client Services (LDAP-UX Integration Product)
Chapter 7
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Documentation
See “Documentation” on page 134.
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
LDAP-UX Client Services (LDAP-UX Integration
Product)
LDAP-UX Client Services integrates HP-UX systems with an LDAP directory.
Specifically, this product consolidates account, group and other configuration
information into a central LDAP directory to simplify HP-UX system administration.
The LDAP-UX Client Services product works with a variety of LDAP v3 capable
directory servers and is fully tested with the Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX and
the Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Servers.
Summary of Change
The LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 is a major release and is enhanced to provide
migration from NIS or NIS+ environment to an LDAP environment. The new features
have been implemented to support NIS+ migration. In addition to NIS+ migration
support, several enhancements are added. This release contains the following
enhancements and changes:
• Support for AutoFS maps
AutoFS is a client-side service that automatically mounts appropriate file systems
when users request access to them. If an automounted file system has been idle for a
period of time, AutoFS unmounts it. AutoFS uses name services files, NIS or NIS+ to
store and manage AutoFS maps.
Starting with LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00, it supports the automount service
under the AutoFS subsystem. LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 contains a new
feature that allows users to store and manage AutoFS maps in an LDAP directory
server. The LDAP-UX Client Services supports the RFC2307-bis automount schema
as a default. However the nisObject automount schema can also be used if
configured via attribute mapping. In order to enable the AutoFS for LDAP support,
the AutoFS patches are required. For details see the “Patch Requirements” section in
the LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Release Notes, available at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/internet.
• Support for publickey
LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 provides enhancements for discovery and
management of publickeys in an LDAP directory. Both public and secret keys, used
by the SecureRPC API, can be stored in user and host entries in an LDAP directory
server, using the nisKeyObject objectclass.