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

Administering LDAP-UX Client Services
Using the LDAP-UX Client Daemon
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Using the LDAP-UX Client Daemon
This section provides:
• an explanation of the administration tool ldapclientd and the
configuration file, ldapclientd.conf
• the steps required to activate the client daemon
Overview
The LDAP-UX client daemon can improve the performance and extend
the capabilities of LDAP-UX clients by caching entries, supporting
multiple domains in the ADS, automatically downloading the
configuration profiles, and reusing connections to the LDAP directory
server.
The daemon enables LDAP-UX to use multiple domains for directory
servers like ADS. The daemon also allows PAM Kerberos to authenticate
POSIX users stored in multiple domains.
Automatic Profile Downloading updates the LDAP client configuration
profile by downloading a newer copy from the directory server as the
profileTTLk expires.
By default, ldapclientd starts at system boot time. The ldapclientd
command can also be used to launch the daemon manually, or control it
when the daemon is already running. Refer to the following section and
the ldapclientd man page(s) for information about the ldapclientd
command and its parameters.
The ldapclientd Administration Tool
The following sections explains how to use the ldapclientd
administration tool.
Starting the Client
Use the following syntax to start the client. This syntax is case-sensitive.
/opt/ldapux/bin/ldapclientd [-d <level>]
[-o<stdout|syslog|file[=size]>] [-z]