HP UX LDAP-UX Integration Software manual Login, ftpd Ls, who

	Introduction
	Overview of LDAP-UX Client Services
Table 1-1	Examples of Commands and Subsystems
	that use PAM and NSS (Continued)
Commands that use Commands that use PAM and
NSS	NSS

loginsb

nslookup

a.nsquery(1) is a contributed tool included with the ONC/NFS product.

b.These commands enumerate the entire passwd or group database, which may reduce network and directory server performance for large databases.

Figure 1-3 A Simplified LDAP-UX Client Services Environment

LDAP Directory

Server

LDAP requests

	LDAP C SDK
PAM	ldapclientd
	NSS
login, ftpd,	ls, who,
etc.	etc.
	LDAP-UX client

In addition, the getpwent(3C) and getgrent(3C) family of system calls get user and group information from the directory.

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