LDAP-UX Client Services B.05.00 Administrator's Guide

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5.5.8.8 Displaying attribute mapping for a specific name service
Use the ldapcfinfo -t <type> -m command to display attribute mapping information
defined in the LDAP-UX configuration profile. The valid <type> value can be passwd or group.
The following command displays the attribute mapping for the gecos attribute which has been
mapped to cn, l and telephone attributes:
./ldapcfinfo -t passwd -m gecos
The output of the above command is as follows:
gecos=cn l telephoneNumber
The following command displays the attribute mapping for the gecos and uidNumber attributes.
In this example, gecos has been mapped to cn, l and telephone attributes, and uidNumber
has been mapped to the employeeNumber attribute:
./ldapcfinfo -t passwd -m gecos,uidNumber
The output of the above command is:
gecos=cn l telephoneNumber
uidNumber=employeeNumber
5.6 Managing hosts in an LDAP-UX domain
LDAP-UX B.05.00 introduces utilities that simplify management of hosts, adding to the toolset
provided for managing users and groups. Two utilities have been added, /opt/ldapux/bin/
ldaphostmgr and /opt/ldapux/bin/ldaphostlist. These utilities let you discover, create,
modify, and remove host objects in the directory server. Similar to the user and group management
tools described in Section 5.5 (page 159), these host-management tools integrate with the LDAP-UX
configuration, allowing administrators and automated scripts to modify host information without
needing to know configuration information such as the directory server host name, directory
server tree location, authentication methods, attribute mapping, search filters, and so forth.
As part of the guided installation (see Section 2.3 (page 23)), LDAP-UX uses the ldaphostmgr
tool to provision information about the current host into the directory server, including the host’s
ssh public key data. (For more information about using LDAP-UX to manage ssh host keys and
to pre-establish trust between hosts, see Chapter 6 (page 193).)
This section describes how to use the LDAP host management tools, ldaphostmgr and
ldaphostlist, by following example usage scenarios. Additional usage scenarios are described
in “Managing ssh host keys with LDAP-UX” (page 193).
NOTE: The examples in this section are targeted toward entries stored in an HP-UX Directory
server. Windows ADS users should translate the examples to the respective usage in ADS. For
example, instead of using an administrator DN of
uid=domadmin,ou=people,dc=mydomain,dc=eample,dc=com, you might see
cn=administrator,cn=users,dc=mydomain,dc=eample,dc=com in a Windows domain.
5.6.1 Adding a host
Use the ldaphostmgr tool to add, modify, and delete hosts to, in, and from the directory server.
ldaphostmgr relies on the LDAP-UX configuration profile to determine the proper location to
store new hosts. (For information about displaying the configuration profile, see Section 5.10
(page 182); for information about configuration profile object classes and attributes, see “LDAP-UX
Client Services object classes” (page 349).) The location where hosts are stored is defined in the
profile’s serviceSearchDescriptor for the hosts service. If you used the guided installation
(autosetup), this location is automatically defined to be ou=hosts,suffix or
cn=computers,suffix (for a Windows domain), where suffix is the base of your directory
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