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Installing And Configuring LDAP-UX Client Services

Configure the LDAP-UX Client Services

	Enter whether or not you want to create custom search descriptors for
	any of the supported services: passwd, shadow passwd, group, PAM,
	netgroup, rpc, protocols, network, hosts and services. Select the service
	you want to create a custom search descriptor for.
	A custom search descriptor consists of three parts: a search base DN,
	scope, and filter. Use custom search descriptors if you want clients to
	search different locations in the directory or to apply different search
	filters, for example some clients might search for employees only in a
	particular department. Each service can have up to three different
	search descriptors. The client uses the search descriptors in order until it
	finds what it is looking for.
NOTE	If your search filters overlap, enumeration requests will result in
	duplicate entries being returned. For example, if one search filter
	searched a subset of your organization and a second search filter
	searched your entire organization, an enumeration request would return
	duplicate entries.
	See “Minimizing Enumeration Requests” on page 125 for more
	information.

LDAP-UX Client Services uses the automount search filter for the automount service as default. If you want to create the nisObject search filter for the automount service to search a different location in the directory, use the following steps:

1.Type yes for the following question and press the return key:

Do you want to create custom search descriptors? [No]: yes

2.Next, it will take you to the screen which shows you the following information:

To accept the default shown in brackets, press the Return key.

search base [dc=cup,dc=hp,dc=com]: search scope (base, one, sub) [sub] Search filter [(objectclass=automount)]

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