NIS/LDAP Gateway Administrator's Guide

Glossary
See also 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 See Access Control Instruction.
ACL See See Access Control List..
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force; the organization that defines the LDAP specification. See
http://www.ietf.org.
LDAP See See Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
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.
LDIF See See LDAP Data Interchange Format.
Lightweight
Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP)
A standard, extensible set of conventions specifying communication between clients and servers
across TCP/IP network connections.
See also See also SLAPD..
Network
Information
Service (NIS)
A distributed database system providing centralized management of common configuration
files, such as /etc/passwd and /etc/hosts.
NIS See See Network Information Service.
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; required by the
NIS/LDAP Gateway. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt.
SLAPD The University of Michigan's stand-alone implementation of LDAP, without the need for an
X.500 directory.
ypldapd The NIS/LDAP Gateway daemon. It replaces the NIS ypserv daemon by accepting NIS client
requests and getting the requested information from an LDAP directory rather than from NIS
maps.
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