HP-UX Directory Server Administrator Guide HP-UX Directory Server Version 8.1 (5900-3332, November 2013)

Figure 14 Autobind connection path
The special autobind users are entries beneath a special autobind suffix (outside the regular user
subtree). The entries underneath are identified by their user and group ID numbers:
gidNumber=gid+uidNumberuid, autobindsuffix
If autobind is not enabled but LDAPI is, then Unix users are anonymously bound to the Directory
Server, unless they provide other bind credentials.
NOTE:
Autobind allows a client to send a request to the Directory Server without supplying a bind username
and password or using other SASL authentication mechanism. According to the LDAP standard, if
bind information is not given with the request, the server processes the request as an anonymous
bind. To be compliant with the standard, which requires some kind of bind information, any client
that uses autobind should send the request with SASL/EXTERNAL.
For more information on configuring SASL, see “Managing SASL” (page 499).
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