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Working With Naming and Directory Services in Oracle Solaris 11.1     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

Part I About Naming and Directory Services

1.  Naming and Directory Services (Overview)

2.  Name Service Switch (Overview)

3.  Managing DNS (Tasks)

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)

7.  Administering NIS (Tasks)

8.  NIS Troubleshooting

Part III LDAP Naming Services

9.  Introduction to LDAP Naming Services (Overview)

Audience Assumptions

Suggested Background Reading

Additional Prerequisite

LDAP Naming Services Compared to Other Naming Services

Advantages of LDAP Naming Services

Restrictions of LDAP Naming Services

LDAP Naming Services Setup (Task Map)

LDAP Data Interchange Format

Using Fully Qualified Domain Names With LDAP

Default Directory Information Tree

Default LDAP Schema

Service Search Descriptors and Schema Mapping

Description of SSDs

attributeMap Attributes

objectclassMap Attribute

LDAP Client Profiles

LDAP Client Profile Attributes

Local LDAP Client Attributes

ldap_cachemgr Daemon

LDAP Naming Services Security Model

Transport Layer Security

Assigning Client Credential Levels

LDAP anonymous Credential Level

LDAP proxy Credential Level

LDAP proxy anonymous Credential Level

LDAP per-user Authentication

enableShadowUpdate Switch

Credential Storage for LDAP Clients

Choosing Authentication Methods for the LDAP Naming Service

Specifying Authentication Methods for Specific Services in LDAP

Pluggable Authentication Methods

pam_unix_* Service Modules

Kerberos Service Module

LDAP Service Module

PAM and Changing Passwords

LDAP Account Management

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)

15.  Transitioning From NIS to LDAP (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Using Fully Qualified Domain Names With LDAP

If LDAP is used to resolve host names, then an LDAP client always returns a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for a host name. The LDAP FQDN is similar to the FQDN returned by DNS. For example, suppose your domain name is the following:

west.example.net

Both gethostbyname() and getnameinfo() return the FQDN version when looking up the host name server:

server.west.example.net