HP UX LDAP-UX Integration Software Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services, Simplified NIS Environment

Introduction

Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services

	on the network. With NIS, account and configuration information resides
	on NIS servers. NIS client systems retrieve this shared configuration
	information across the network from NIS servers, as shown below:
Figure 1-1	A Simplified NIS Environment
		NIS master server
		Map transfers

NIS slave server

NIS slave server

NIS Requests

NIS client

NIS client

NIS client

LDAP-UX Client Services improves on this configuration information sharing. HP-UX account and configuration information is stored in an LDAP directory, not on the local client system. Client systems retrieve this shared configuration information across the network from the LDAP

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