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

can have up to three different search descriptors. A custom search descriptor consists of
three parts: a search base DN, scope, and filter. The client uses the search descriptors in
order until it finds what it is looking for.
NOTE: If your search filters overlap, enumeration requests will result in duplicate entries
being returned. For example, if one search filter searched a subset of your organization and
a second search filter searched your entire organization, an enumeration request would
return duplicate entries.
See the “Minimizing Enumeration Requests” section for more information.
To begin the process to create custom search descriptors, setup will prompt you for the
following information:
LDAP-UX Client Services supports the following services:
1.Password 7.Networks
2.Shadow passwd 8.Hosts
3.Group 9.Services
4.PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module)10.Printers
5.RPC 11.Automount
6.Protocols 12.Netgroup
You can create up to three custom search descriptors for each name
service to search different locations in the directory for user
and group information.
Do you want to create custom search descriptors? [No]:
Enter 'yes' if you want to create custom search descriptors for any of the supported services.
Then enter the number of the service for which you want to create a custom search descriptor.
If, you do not want to create custom search descriptors, enter 'no' to this prompt to continue
to the next step.
Creating the nisObject search filter
LDAP-UX Client Services uses the automount search filter for the automount service as
default. If you want to create the nisObject search filter for the automount service to
search a different location in the directory, use the following steps:
1. Type yes for the following question and press the return key:
Do you want to create custom search descriptors? [No]: yes
2. Next, it will take you to the screen which shows you the following information:
To accept the default shown in brackets, press the Return key.
search base [dc=cup,dc=hp,dc=com]:
search scope (base, one, sub) [sub]
Search filter [(objectclass=automount)]
If you want to create the nisObject search filter for the automount service, then type
(objectclass=nisObject) for the following prompt and press the Return key;
otherwise press the return key to accept the default search filter,
objectclass=automount:
Search filter [(objectclass=automount)]: (objectclass=nisObject)
12. You will be asked whether or not you want to start the client daemon. For LDAP-UX Client
B.03.20 or later versions, the client daemon must be started for LDAP-UX functions to work.
With LDAP-UX Client B.03.10 or earlier, the client daemon is optional, and should be turned
on in order to provide better prformance (response time) and for the X.500 group membership
to work.
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