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

Introduction
Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services
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directory, as shown below. LDAP adds greater scalability,
interoperability with other applications and platforms, and less network
traffic from replica updates.
Figure 1-2 A Simplified LDAP-UX Client Services Environment
LDAP-UX Client Services supports the following name service data:
passwd, groups, hosts, rpc, services, networks, protocols, publickeys,
automount, netgroup. See the LDAP-UX Integration B.04.00 Release
Notes for any additional supported services.
How LDAP-UX Client Services Works
LDAP-UX Client Services works by leveraging the authentication
mechanism provided in the Pluggable Authentication Module, or PAM,
and the naming services provided by the Name Service Switch, or NSS.
See pam(3), pam.conf(4), and Managing Systems and Workgroups at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os for information on PAM. For information on
NSS, see switch(4) and “Configuring the Name Service Switch” in
Installing and Administering NFS Services at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/communications/#NFS.
These extensible mechanisms allow new authentication methods and
new name services to be installed and used without changing the
underlying HP-UX commands. And, by supporting the PAM architecture,
the HP-UX client becomes truly integrated in the LDAP environment.
The PAM_LDAP library allows the HP-UX system to use the LDAP
directory as a trusted server for authentication. This means that
LDAP Directory
Server
LDAP Requests
LDAP-UX client
LDAP-UX client
Updates
LDAP Directory
Server Replica