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

Glossary 195
Glossary
See also the Glossary in the Netscape
Directory Server for HP-UX Administrator’s
Guide available at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/internet.
Access Control Instruction A
specification controlling access to entries in a
directory.
Access Control List One or more ACIs.
ACI See See Access Control Instruction
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force; the
organization that defines the LDAP
specification. See http://www.ietf.org.
Configuration profile An entry in an
LDAP directory containing information
common to many clients, that allows clients
to access user, group and other information
in the directory. Clients download the profile
from the directory.See also See also Client
Configuration File.
DIGEST-MD5 Message Digest version 5. It
is a one-way hash function and always
generates 20 bytes of output from text data.
LDAP See See Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol
LDIF See See LDAP Data Interchange
Format
LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
The format used to represent directory
server entries in text form.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) A standard, extensible set of
conventions specifying communication
between clients and servers across TCP/IP
network connections.See also See also
SLAPD.
Name Service Switch (NSS) A
framework that allows a host to get name
information from various sources such as
local files in /etc, NIS, NIS+, or an LDAP
directory without modifying applications.
See switch(4) for more information.
Network Information Service (NIS) A
distributed database system providing
centralized management of common
configuration files, such as /etc/passwd and
/etc/hosts.
NIS See See Network Information Service
NSS See See Name Service Switch
PAM See See Pluggable Authentication
Mechanism
PAM Authorization Service Module
See The PAM Authorization Service Module
allows the administrator to control which
user subgroups of a large repository can login
to the system pam_authz(5).
Pluggable Authentication Module
(PAM) A framework that allows different
authentication service modules to be made
available without modifying applications.
See pam_ldap(5), pam(3), and pam.conf(4)
for more information.
Profile See See Configuration profile
RFC Request for Comments; a document
and process of standardization from the
IETF.
RFC 2307 The IETF specification for using
LDAP as a Network Information Service.
See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt.