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Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide

Preface

SunTM Directory Services offers a global directory and naming service. The product contains:

The Sun Directory Services also offer the following security features:

The Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide describes the configuration and management tasks that need to be performed to maintain directory information and operate a directory service. It also describes how to integrate the NIS server provided as part of the Sun Directory Services into a NIS environment.

This book is intended for directory server administrators.

How This Book Is Organized

Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, Introduction to Directory Concepts describes the concepts governing a global and distributed directory service.

Chapter 2, Sun Directory Services Components and Architecture briefly describes the overall architecture and the individual components of the Sun Directory Services.

Chapter 3, Planning a Directory Service provides guidelines for organizing the structure of the directory according to the type of information you want to store in it.

Chapter 4, Configuring a Directory Server describes the default configuration of Sun Directory Services and the configuration tasks that you can perform to tailor the configuration to meet your specific needs.

Chapter 5, Loading and Maintaining Directory Information describes how to populate and maintain the database.

Chapter 6, Using the Directory as an NIS Server explains how to use the directory server to replace an NIS server. It contains configuration information for the NIS service.

Chapter 7, Using the RADIUS Server explains how to use the directory to authenticate users through the RADIUS protocol. It contains configuration information for the RADIUS service.

Chapter 8, Configuring the Directory Schema explains how to modify the default schema, and also provides an object class and attribute reference for the default schema.

Chapter 9, Implementing Replication explains how to set up a replication plan for distributing directory information.

Chapter 10, Managing the Directory Services describes how to start and stop the directory services, and how to gather statistics and accounting information from the SNMP agents supplied with Sun Directory Services.

Related Books

The document set for Sun Directory Services 3.1 also contains:

Standards Reference

Sun Directory Services is based on the following Internet standards and proposed standards:

Sun Directory Services supports the following OSI standards:

Ordering Sun Documents

The SunDocsSM program provides more than 250 manuals from Sun Microsystems, Inc. If you live in the United States, Canada, Europe, or Japan, you can purchase documentation sets or individual manuals using this program.

For a list of documents and how to order them, see the catalog section of the SunExpressTM Internet site at http://www.sun.com/sunexpress.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

The docs.sun.com Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.comarchive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com/.

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% You have mail.

 

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output 

machine_name% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: 

replace with a real name or value 

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C shell prompt 

machine_name%

C shell superuser prompt 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt 

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt 

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