Migrating NIS+ to LDAP

Installing the LDAP-UX Integration ProductInstalling the LDAP-UX Integration Product

Use swinstall(1M) to install the LDAP-UX Integration product, J4269AA. See the LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Release Notes for more details on the installation procedures. The LDAP-UX Integration product is available at http://www.software.hp.com. You must install the LDAP-UX Integration product version B.04.00. You do not need to reboot your system after installing the product

The LDAP-UX Integration product contains the following subproducts:

•LDAP-UX Client Services. Provides both an LDAP-based Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) and Name Service Switch (NSS) module.

—PAM is the Pluggable Authentication Module, which allows the HP-UX OS and its applications to perform authenticaion of users, without detailed knowledge about the particular method used to manage user data. (LDAP, Kerberos, /etc/passwd file, etc...).

—NSS is the Name Service Switch which is a pluggable name resolution service. It’s used by various C library APIs, such as getpwnam() and others to discover user, group and other POSIX-related information.

•LDAP-UX Client Administrator’s Tools and Migration Scripts. Administrator’s Tools are used to manage data in the LDAP directory server. Migration scripts are used to migrate NIS+ or NIS service data to the LDAP directory.

•Mozilla LDAP Software Development Kit (SDK). The LDAP Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for building LDAP-enabled clients.

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