LDAP-UX Client Services B.05.01 Administrator Guide for HP directory servers and Windows ADS

configuration of Active Directory domain controllers to provide Kerberos with authentication
services. This enables Windows ADS to authenticate Kerberos clients regardless of the platform
on which they reside.
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A standard, extensible set of conventions specifying
communication between clients and servers across TCP/IP network connections.
See also See also SLAPD..
LDAP Data
Interchange
Format
See LDIF.
LDAP-UX domain A collection of users, groups, and hosts that are managed in the LDAP directory server and are
defined by the LDAP-UX configuration profile. All hosts configured to point to the same LDAP-UX
configuration profile are considered part of that domain. Not to be confused with Windows
domains, the directory server administration domain, or a DNS domain.
LDIF LDAP Data Interchange Format. The format used to represent LDAP directory server entries in text
form.
LDIF LDAP Data Interchange Format. A standard plain text data interchange format for representing
LDAP directory content and update requests. LDIF conveys directory content as a set of records,
one record for each object (or entry). It represents update requests (such as Add, Modify, Delete,
and Rename) as a set of records, one record for each update request.
See also LDAP.
Lightweight
Directory Access
Protocol
See LDAP.
LP Line printer
LPD Line printer daemon
Name Service
Switch
See NSS.
Network
Information Service
See NIS.
NIS Network Information Service. A distributed database system providing centralized management
of common configuration files, such as /etc/passwd and /etc/hosts.
NSS Name Service Switch. A framework that allows a host to obtain name information from various
sources such as local files in /etc, NIS, or an LDAP directory, without modifying applications.
For more information, see the switch(4) manpage.
PAM Pluggable Authentication Module. An industry standard authentication framework that is supplied
as an integrated part of the HP-UX system. PAM gives system administrators the flexibility of
choosing any authentication service (such as a centralized LDAP directory server) available on
the system to perform authentication. The PAM framework also enables new authentication service
modules to be plugged in and made available without modifying the PAM-enabled applications.For
more information, see the pam_ldap(5), pam(3), and pam.conf(4) manpages.
PAM Authorization
Service Module
See PAM_AUTHZ.
PAM_AUTHZ PAM Authorization Service Module. A software mechanism that allows the administrator to control
which user subgroups of a large repository can log in to the system. For more information, see
the pam_authz(5) manpage.
Pluggable
Authentication
Module
See PAM.
Profile 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 the RFC at the
following location:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt.
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