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Working With Naming and Directory Services in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library |
Part I About Naming and Directory Services
1. Naming and Directory Services (Overview)
2. Name Service Switch (Overview)
4. Setting Up Oracle Solaris Active Directory Clients (Tasks)
Part II NIS Setup and Administration
5. Network Information Service (Overview)
6. Setting Up and Configuring NIS (Tasks)
9. Introduction to LDAP Naming Services (Overview)
LDAP Naming Services Setup (Task Map)
Using Fully Qualified Domain Names With LDAP
Default Directory Information Tree
Service Search Descriptors and Schema Mapping
LDAP Client Profile Attributes
LDAP Naming Services Security Model
Assigning Client Credential Levels
LDAP anonymous Credential Level
LDAP proxy anonymous Credential Level
Credential Storage for LDAP Clients
Choosing Authentication Methods for the LDAP Naming Service
Specifying Authentication Methods for Specific Services in LDAP
Pluggable Authentication Methods
LDAP Account Management With the pam_unix_* Modules
10. Planning Requirements for LDAP Naming Services (Tasks)
11. Setting Up Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition With LDAP Clients (Tasks)
12. Setting Up LDAP Clients (Tasks)
13. LDAP Troubleshooting (Reference)
14. LDAP Naming Service (Reference)
See Naming Services: A Quick Comparison for comparison of the DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming services.
LDAP enables you to consolidate information by replacing application-specific databases, which reduces the number of distinct databases to be managed.
LDAP allows data to be shared by different naming services.
LDAP provides a central repository for data.
LDAP allows for more frequent data synchronization between masters and replicas.
LDAP is multi-platform and multi-vendor compatible.
Following are some restrictions that are associated with LDAP naming services:
An LDAP server is currently not supported as being its own client.
Setting up and managing an LDAP naming service is more complex and requires careful planning.
An NIS client and a native LDAP client cannot coexist on the same client machine.
Note - A directory server (an LDAP server) cannot be its own client. That is, you cannot configure the machine that is running the directory server software to become an LDAP naming services client.
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