Administering
Verifying the Proxy User
Verifying the Proxy User
The proxy user information is stored encrypted in the file /etc/opt/ldapux/pcred. You can check if the proxy user can authenticate to the directory by running /opt/ldapux/config/ldap_proxy_config
cd /opt/ldapux/config
./ldap_proxy_config
File Credentials verified - valid
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| Creating a New Proxy User |
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| If you need to create a new proxy user and change your client systems to |
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| use the new proxy user, use the following steps: |
Step | 1. | Add the new proxy user to your directory with appropriate access |
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| controls. See the steps “Create a proxy user” and “Set access permissions |
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| for the proxy user” under the procedure “Configure Your Directory” on |
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| page 21 for details. |
Step | 2. | Configure each client to use the new proxy user by running |
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| /opt/ldapux/config/ldap_proxy_config. See “The ldap_proxy_config Tool” |
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| on page 146 for details. See below for examples. |
Step | 3. | Run /opt/ldapux/config/ldap_proxy_config |
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| just configured and confirm that it is correct. |
Step | 4. | Run /opt/ldapux/config/ldap_proxy_config |
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| working. |
Example
For example, the following command configures the local client to use a proxy user DN of uid=proxy,ou=people,o=hp.com with a password of abcd1234:
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