LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator's Guide

Administering LDAP-UX Client Services
Displaying the Proxy User’s DN
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environment. LDAP-UX can take advantage of replica directory servers
and the alternates if one of them fails. Follow these steps to inform
LDAP-UX about multiple directory servers:
Step 1. Create and configure your LDAP directory replica. For Netscape
Directory Server for HP-UX, see the Netscape Directory Server
Deployment Guide.
Step 2. Edit an existing profile and modify the defaultServerList or
preferredServerList attribute to specify a replica directory server. See
“Modifying a Profile” on page 122.
See Appendix B, “LDAP-UX Client Services Object Classes,” on page 187
for a description of the defaultServerList or preferredServer attribute.
Step 3. On all clients that are to use the replica server, edit the start-up file,
/etc/opt/ldapux/ldapux_client.conf, to refer to the replica host. Modify the
LDAP_HOSTPORT line to specify the replica server.
Step 4. After modifying an existing profile, each client that regularly downloads
its profile automatically will get the changes as scheduled.
See“Download the Profile Periodically” on page 74.
NOTE Client systems using an LDAP directory replica may not be able to
modify the directory replica. In this case, the passwd(1) command will
not work on those systems. They can use the ldappasswd(8) command
described under “The ldappasswd Command” on page 166.
Displaying the Proxy User’s DN
You can display the proxy user’s distinguished name by running
/opt/ldapux/config/ldap_proxy_config -p.
The following command displays the current proxy user:
ldap_proxy_config -p
PROXY DN: uid=proxy,ou=people,o=hp.com