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

Using Profiles to Initialize a Client

ProcedureHow to Initialize a Client Using Profiles

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Chapter 9, Using Role-Based Access Control (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Run ldapclient with init.


    # ldapclient init \
    -a profileName=new \
    -a domainName=west.example.com 192.168.0.1
    System successfully configured