HP UX LDAP-UX Integration Software manual How LDAP-UX Client Services Work

Overview of NIS+ to LDAP Migration

Comparing LDAP and NIS+ Information Sharing

	LDAP-UX Client Services improves on this configuration information
	sharing. User, group, and other network operating system configuration
	information can be integrated with other identity information in other
	organization-wide applications. The account and configuration
	information is stored in an LDAP directory. Client systems retrieve this
	shared configuration information across the network from the LDAP
	directory. In addition, LDAP adds greater scalability, interoperability
	with other applications and platforms, and less network traffic from
	replica updates. Figure 1-3 shows a simplified LDAP-UX Client Services
	Environment.
Figure 1-2	A Simplified LDAP-UX Client Services Environment

LDAP Directory Server

user account data netgroup data services data automount data security data

LDAP Directory

Server Replica

Updates

LDAP Requests

LDAP-UX Client

LDAP-UX Client

LDAP-UX Client Services supports the following name service data: passwd, groups, hosts, rpc, services, networks, protocols, printers, netgroup, automount and public key.

How LDAP-UX Client Services Work

LDAP-UX Client Services works by leveraging the authentication mechanism provided in the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) and the naming services provided by the Name Service Switch (NSS).

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