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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
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)
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)
Prerequisites to LDAP Client Setup
LDAP and the Service Management Facility
Using Profiles to Initialize a Client
How to Initialize a Client Using Profiles
How to Initialize a Client Using Per-User Credentials
How to Initialize a Client Using Proxy Credentials
Enabling Shadow Updating in LDAP
How to Initialize a Client to Enable the Updating of Shadow Data
Initializing a Client Manually
How to Initialize a Client Manually
Modifying a Manual Client Configuration
How to Modify a Manual Configuration
Configuring PAM to Use UNIX policy
Configuring PAM to Use LDAP server_policy
Retrieving LDAP Naming Services Information
Listing All User Entry Attributes
13. LDAP Troubleshooting (Reference)
14. LDAP General Reference (Reference)
15. Transitioning From NIS to LDAP (Overview/Tasks)
Part V Active Directory Naming Service
The following sections describe how you can customize the client environment.
You can change any of the services, but be careful, because if the data is not populated on the server for the service specified, things will stop working. Also, in some cases files may not be set up by default.
You can modify your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to customize where each service gets its information. The default settings are stored in /etc/nsswitch.ldap and ldapclient uses this file to create your /etc/nsswitch.conf file when the client is initialized.
If you want to enable DNS by setting up a /etc/resolv.conf file, add DNS to your hosts lines as shown below.
hosts: ldap dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
The recommended configuration is:
hosts: files dns
ipnodes: files dns
If per-user authentication is used, the sasl/GSSAPI and Kerberos mechanisms expect the dns naming service to be configured and enabled. See the chapters on DNS in this administration guide for further details.