HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes
Internet and Networking
HP-UX Enhanced Publickey-LDAP
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Performance
Mozilla may be slow the first time it is started because it is creating a profile.
Documentation
See the Release Notes and http://www.hp.com/go/mozilla for more information on
using Mozilla. For more information on Firefox/Thunderbird on HP-UX 11i, visit
http://www.hp.com/go/firefox.
Obsolescence
The Mozilla application suite will not be updated with any new security fixes. If you are
currently using Mozilla or Netscape, we encourage you to upgrade to Firefox 1.5, or later
version, to avoid security vulnerabilities.
HP-UX Enhanced Publickey-LDAP
Key components on HP-UX 11i v2 consist of newkey/chkey commands to create and
change the public/secret keys pairs and the getpublickey/getsecretkey APIs to
retrieve the public/secret keys from the data repository configured in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. On HP-UX 11i v2, key components work with the files, nis
and nisplus databases.
The ONC 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 software bundle contains enhanced key components plus the
enablement product for this feature. Enhanced key components version B.11.23.01 is
available on the SPK media for HP-UX 11i v2 June 2007 release.
NOTE HP-UX Enhanced Publickey-LDAP is available on the Software Pack (SPK) media for
June 2007. For more information about SPK, see “Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v2
Core Enhancements)” on page 27.
Summary of Change
The HP-UX 11i v2 ONC 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.