Refer to the Glossary in the Netscape Directory Server for
Access Control Instruction A specification controlling access to entries in a directory.
Access Control List One or more ACIs.
ACI See Access Control Instruction
ACL See Access Control List.
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force; the organization that defines the LDAP specification. See http://www.ietf.org.
LDAP See Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF See LDAP Data Interchange Format
LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
The format used to represent directory server entries in text form.
ldappasswd A command to change a user’s password in the LDAP directory.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) A standard, extensible set of conventions specifying communication between clients and servers across TCP/IP network connections.
Name Service Switch (NSS) A framework that allows a host to get name information from various sources such as local files in /etc, NIS, NIS+, or an LDAP directory without modifying applications. See switch(4) for more information.
Network Information Service Plus (NIS+) A distributed database system providing centralized management of common configuration files, such as /etc/passwd and /etc/hosts.
NIS+ See Network Information Service Plus
Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) A framework that allows different authentication service modules to be made available without modifying applications. See pam_ldap(5), pam(3), and pam.conf(4) for more information.
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