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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

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force; the organization that defines the LDAP specification. See http://www.ietf.org.

Configuration profile An entry in an LDAP directory containing information common to many clients, that allows clients to access user, group and other information in the directory. Clients download the profile from the directory.See also See also Client Configuration File.

DIGEST-MD5Message Digest version 5. It is a one-way hash function and always generates 20 bytes of output from text data.

LDAP See See Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDIF See See LDAP Data Interchange Format

LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)

The format used to represent directory server entries in text form.

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.

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 (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

NSS See See Name Service Switch

PAM See See Pluggable Authentication Mechanism

PAM Authorization Service Module

See The PAM Authorization Service Module allows the administrator to control which user subgroups of a large repository can login to the system pam_authz(5).

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.

Profile See 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 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2307.txt.

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