LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.10 Administrator's Guide (edition 7)

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.
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.
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force; the organization that defines the LDAP specification. See
http://www.ietf.org.
LDAP See See Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
LDAP Data
Interchange
Format (LDIF)
The format used to represent directory server entries in text form.
LDIF See See LDAP Data Interchange Format.
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.
SLAPD The University of Michigan's stand-alone implementation of LDAP, without the need for an
X.500 directory.
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.configurationstart-up file ldapux_client.confstart-up file
ldapux_client.confldapux_client.conf start-up fileclient start-up file ldapux_client.conf.
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