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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

Preface

Solaris Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS and LDAP) describes the setup and administration of the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) naming and directory services: DNS, NIS, and LDAP. This guide is part of System and Network Administration set for the current Solaris release.

Note –

This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

For supported systems, see the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists.

Who Should Use This Book

This guide is written for experienced system and network administrators.

Although this book introduces networking concepts relevant to Solaris naming and directory services, it explains neither the networking fundamentals nor the administration tools in the Solaris OS.

How This Book Is Organized

This guide is divided into parts according to the respective naming services.

Part I, About Naming and Directory Services

Part II, DNS Setup and Administration

Part III, NIS Setup and Administration

Part IV, LDAP Naming Services Setup and Administration

Part V, Active Directory Naming Service

How the System Administration Guides Are Organized

Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the System Administration Guides.

Book Title 

Topics 

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

User accounts and groups, server and client support, shutting down and booting a system, managing services, and managing software (packages and patches) 

System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Terminals and modems, system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), system processes, and troubleshooting Solaris software problems 

System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data 

System Administration Guide: IP Services

TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, Solaris IP filter, Mobile IP, and IPQoS 

System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP 

System Administration Guide: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization

Networking stack, NIC driver property configuration, network interface configuration, administration of VLANs and link aggregations, IP networking multipathing (IPMP), WiFi wireless networking configuration, and virtual NICs (VNICs). 

System Administration Guide: Network Services

Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and Autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP 

System Administration Guide: Security Services

Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, privileges, RBAC, SASL, and Solaris Secure Shell 

System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones

Resource management features, which enable you to control how applications use available system resources; zones software partitioning technology, which virtualizes operating system services to create an isolated environment for running applications; and virtualization using SunTM xVM hypervisor technology, which supports multiple operating system instances simultaneously

Solaris CIFS Administration Guide

Solaris CIFS service, which enables you to configure a Solaris system to make CIFS shares available to CIFS clients; and native identity mapping services, which enables you to map user and group identities between Solaris systems and Windows systems 

Solaris ZFS Administration Guide

ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on a Solaris system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery 

Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures

System installation, configuration, and administration that is specific to Solaris Trusted Extensions 

System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

Solaris printing topics and tasks, using services, tools, protocols, and technologies to set up and administer printing services and printers 

Related Books

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output 

machine_name% su

Password:

aabbcc123

Placeholder: replace with a real name or value 

The command to remove a file is rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

A cache is a copy that is stored locally.

Do not save the file.

Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Solaris release.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell 

$

Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser 

#

C shell 

machine_name%

C shell for superuser 

machine_name#