NIS+ to LDAP Migration Guide

Overview of NIS+ to LDAP Migration
Overview of the LDAP-UX Integration Product
Chapter 14
Overview of the LDAP-UX Integration
Product
The LDAP-UX Integration product uses the Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) to centralize user, group and network
information management in an LDAP directory. The LDAP-UX
Integration product includes the following subproducts:
• LDAP-UX Client Services. Provides both an LDAP-based Pluggable
Authentication Module (PAM) and Name Service Switch (NSS)
module.
— PAM is the Pluggable Authentication Model, which allows the
HP-UX OS and its applications to perform authentication of
users, without detailed knowledge about the particular method
used to manage user data. (LDAP, Kerberos, /etc/passwd file,
etc...)
— NSS is the Name Service Switch, which is a pluggable name
resolution service. It is used by various C library APIs, such as
getpwname() and others to discover user, group and other
POSIX-related information.
• LDAP-UX Client Administrator’s Tools and Migration Scripts. These
administrator’s tools manage data in the LDAP directory server. The
migration scripts are used to migrate NIS or NIS+ service data to the
LDIF files or to the LDAP directory.
• Mozilla LDAP Software Development Kit (SDK). This kit contains
the LDAP Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for building
LDAP-enabled clients.
LDAP Directory Server and LDAP-UX Client Services
LDAP directory servers provide services to their clients as a data
repository to centralize and to delegate the administration of
applications, networks, and user data.
The LDAP directory server offers the following security features:
• Centralized management of user, group, and network information.