ONC With Publickey LDAP Support Software Pack Release Notes

ONC with Publickey LDAP Support Software Pack

Announcement

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1 ONC with Publickey LDAP Support

Software Pack

Announcement

NIS+ Client and Server products will no longer be released as part of the HP-UX 11i v3

release. The LDAP-UX Integration product and Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX are the

recommended whole package replacement for NIS+. In order to plan for NIS+ obsolescence,

you should plan to migrate your NIS+ environment to LDAP-UX Integration environment.

The migration to LDAP-UX Integration includes converting the NIS+ server to an LDAP

directory server, migrating the NIS+ service data to an LDAP directory, installing and

conﬁguring the LDAP-UX Client Services on all NIS+ clients. The LDAP-UX Integration

product B.04.00 or later supports migration from NIS+ environment to an LDAP

environment. Netscape Directory Server 6.x, 7.0 and Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 for HP-UX

provides an industry-standard centralized directory service as a data repository to centralize

management of your NIS+ service data.

Support for publickey requires functionality enhancement in LDAP-UX Client Services and

enhancement in the ONC product. The LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 or later version

supports discovery and management of publickeys in an LDAP directory server. Both public

and secret keys, used by the Secure RPC API can be stored in user and host entries in an

LDAP directory server, using the nisKeyObject objectclass. This product also provides the

migration scripts that can be used to migrate the credential table entries including public

keys and secret keys of users and hosts from the NIS+ tables to an LDAP directory server. The

ONC EP/NCF Software Pack (SPK) for HP-UX 11i v1 provides new functionality for publickey

LDAP support. The upcoming release of the ONC EP/NCF SPK will provide the same

functionality for HP-UX 11i v2 during the second half of the calendar year 2006.

For detailed information on how to migrate the credential table entries including public keys

and secret keys of users and hosts from the NIS+ servers into an LDAP directory server, refer

to the NIS+ to LDAP Migration Guide. For detailed information on how to conﬁgure publickey

for use with LDAP, refer to “Conﬁgure LDAP-UX Client Services with Publickey Support”

section in Chapter 2 of the LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator’s Guide.