NIS+ to LDAP Migration Guide

Glossary 57
Glossary
Refer to the Glossary in the Netscape
Directory Server for HP-UX Administrator’s
Guide available at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/internet.
Access Control Instruction A
specification controlling access to entries in a
directory.
Access Control List One or more ACIs.
ACI See Access Control Instruction
ACL See Access Control List.
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force; the
organization that defines the LDAP
specification. See http://www.ietf.org.
LDAP See Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol
LDIF See LDAP Data Interchange Format
LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
The format used to represent directory
server entries in text form.
ldappasswd A command to change a user’s
password in the LDAP directory.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) A standard, extensible set of
conventions specifying communication
between clients and servers across TCP/IP
network connections.
Name Service Switch (NSS) A
framework that allows a host to get name
information from various sources such as
local files in /etc, NIS, NIS+, or an LDAP
directory without modifying applications.
See switch(4) for more information.
Network Information Service Plus
(NIS+) A distributed database system
providing centralized management of
common configuration files, such as
/etc/passwd and /etc/hosts.
NIS+ See Network Information Service Plus
Pluggable Authentication Module
(PAM) A framework that allows different
authentication service modules to be made
available without modifying applications.
See pam_ldap(5), pam(3), and pam.conf(4)
for more information.