Saturday, September 24, 2005

Unconfigure LDAP client

ldapclient uninit
* removes files from /var/ldap and restores previous nsswitch.conf

List all LDAP containers

ldaplist

Two ways to view LDAP client config

1) ldapclient list
2) cat /var/ldap/ldap_client_file

To initialize LDAP client

ldapclient init

LDAP client daemon

ldap_cachemgr

To use one login/password for a group of LDAP clients

Proxy Account is set up

Profile that is downloaded from LDAP server

Client Profile

LDAP server cannot

be a client of itself

Default name service in Solaris 9

NIS+

The best name service troubleshooting util

getent
* it uses nsswitch, and searches just as a system would

nsswitch.conf has NUTS

NOTFOUND
UNAVAIL
TRYAGAIN
SUCCESS
* each is either "return" or "continue"

List all NIS maps

ypwhich -m
* m for multiple