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

If you prefer to merge your name service data into an existing directory structure, you can
map the standard RFC 2307 attributes to alternate attributes. For more information, see
“LDAP-UX Client Services object classes” (page 406).
• How will you put your user, group, and other data into your directory?
LDAP supports group membership defined in the X.500 syntax (using the member or
uniquemember attribute), while still supporting the RFC 2307 syntax (using the memberuid
attribute). This new group membership syntax increases LDAP-UX integration with LDAP and
other LDAP-based applications, and might reduce administration overhead eliminating the
need to manage the memberuid attribute. In addition, a new performance improvement has
been made through the addition of a new caching daemon that caches passwd, group, and
X.500 group membership information retrieved from an LDAP server. This significantly reduces
the LDAP-UX response time to applications. To improve performance further, the daemon reuses
connections for LDAP queries and maintains multiple connections to an LDAP server.
The migration scripts provided with LDAP-UX Client Services can build and populate a new
directory subtree for your user and group data.
If you merge your data into an existing directory, such as to share user names and passwords
with other applications, the migration scripts can create LDIF files of your user data, but you
will have to write your own scripts or use other tools to merge the data into your directory.
You can add the posixAccount object class to your users already in the directory to leverage
your existing directory data.
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