LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Release Notes

LDAP-UX Client Services Release Notes
LDAP-UX Client Services Overview
Chapter 14
migration. In addition to NIS+ migration support, several enhancements
are added. This release contains the following enhancements and
changes:
• Support for AutoFS maps
AutoFS is a client-side service that automatically mounts
appropriate file systems when users request access to them. If an
automounted file system has been idle for a period of time, AutoFS
unmounts it. AutoFS uses name services files, NIS or NIS+ to store
and manage AutoFS maps.
Starting LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00, it supports the
automount service under the AutoFS subsystem. LDAP-UX Client
Services B.04.00 contains a new feature that allows users to store
and manage AutoFS maps in an LDAP directory server. The
LDAP-UX Client Services supports the RFC2307-bis automount
schema as a default. However the nisObject automount schema can
also be used if configured via attribute mapping in the configuration
profile. In order to enable the AutoFS for LDAP support, the AutoFS
patches are required, see the “Patch Requirements” on page 11 for
details.
• Publickey support
LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 provides enhancements for
discovery and management of publickeys in an LDAP directory. Both
public and secret keys, used by the SecureRPC API can be stored in
user and host entries in an LDAP directory server, using the
nisKeyObject objectclass.
Support for publickey requires functionality enhancement in
LDAP-UX Client Services and enablement in ONC. ONC with
Publickey LDAP support will be available during the second half of
calendar year 2005.
• Provide NIS+ to LDAP migration scripts
This release provides migration scripts that can be used to migrate
name service data from an NIS+ domain into an LDAP directory
server. These scripts add support for migration of automount maps
as well as publickey maps. LDAP-UX Client Services only supports
NIS+ to LDAP migration scripts for Netscape Directory Server.
Because of the syntactic differences between NIS+ access controls
and those used by the variety of LDAP directory servers, NIS+ access