LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Administrator's Guide

Glossary
NIS
Glossary194
NIS See See Network Information Service
NSS See See Name Service Switch
PAM See See Pluggable Authentication
Mechanism
Pluggable Authentication Mechanism
(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
Remote Domains All domains in the
forest, other than the local domain, are
referred to as remote domains. When you
choose multiple domain support during
setup, you will be guided to configure
profiles for remote domains. When
LDAP-UX cannot find data from the local
domain, remote domains will be searched.
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.
Start-up file A text file containing
information the client needs to access an
LDAP directory and download a
configuration profile. See also See also
Configuration profile.