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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) |
Part I About Naming and Directory Services
1. Naming and Directory Services (Overview)
2. The Name Service Switch (Overview)
Part II DNS Setup and Administration
3. DNS Setup and Administration (Reference)
Part III NIS Setup and Administration
4. Network Information Service (NIS) (Overview)
5. Setting Up and Configuring NIS Service
Part IV LDAP Naming Services Setup and Administration
8. Introduction to LDAP Naming Services (Overview/Reference)
9. LDAP Basic Components and Concepts (Overview)
LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
Using Fully Qualified Domain Names With LDAP
Default Directory Information Tree (DIT)
Service Search Descriptors (SSDs) and Schema Mapping
LDAP Naming Services Security Model
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Assigning Client Credential Levels
Choosing Authentication Methods
Pluggable Authentication Methods
Account Management With pam_unix
10. Planning Requirements for LDAP Naming Services (Tasks)
11. Setting Up Sun Java System Directory Server With LDAP Clients (Tasks)
12. Setting Up LDAP Clients (Tasks)
13. LDAP Troubleshooting (Reference)
14. LDAP General Reference (Reference)
15. Transitioning From NIS to LDAP (Overview/Tasks)
16. Transitioning From NIS+ to LDAP
A. Solaris 10 Software Updates to DNS, NIS, and LDAP
ldap_cachemgr is a daemon that runs on LDAP client machines. When you start the LDAP client, the ldap_cachemgr daemon is invoked. The daemon performs the following key functions.
Refreshes the client configuration information stored in the profiles on the server and pulls this data from the clients
Maintains a sorted list of active LDAP servers to use
Improves lookup efficiency by caching some common lookup requests submitted by various clients
Improves the efficiency of host lookups
Starting in the Solaris 10 10/09 release, if the enableShadowUpdate switch is set to true, gains access to the configured administrator credential and performs updates to the shadow data
Note - ldap_cachemgr must be running at all times for LDAP naming services to work.
Refer to the ldap_cachemgr(1M) man page for detailed information.