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Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

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Planning Client Profiles <strong>and</strong> DefaultAttribute Values for <strong>LDAP</strong>By going through the previous planning steps (network model, DIT, <strong>and</strong> securitymodel), you should have some idea of the values for the following profile attributes.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■cndefaultServerListpreferredServerListbindTimeLimitsearchTimeLimitprofileTTLdefaultSearchBasedefaultSearchScopeserviceSearchDescriptorattributeMapobjectclassMapfollowReferralscredentialLevelauthenticationMethodserviceCredentialLevelserviceAuthenticationMethodOf the preceding attributes, only cn, defaultServerList, <strong>and</strong>defaultSearchBase are required. They have no default values. The rest areoptional, <strong>and</strong> some have default values.See Chapter 12 for more information about setting up <strong>LDAP</strong> clients.Planning the <strong>LDAP</strong> Data PopulationTo populate the <strong>LDAP</strong> server with data, after the <strong>LDAP</strong> server has been configuredwith the proper DIT <strong>and</strong> schema. Use the new ldapaddent tool. This tool will createentries in <strong>LDAP</strong> containers from their corresponding /etc files. It can be used topopulate data into the containers for the following types of data: aliases, auto_*,bootparams, ethers, group, hosts (including IPv6 addresses), netgroup,netmasks, networks, passwd, shadow, protocols, publickey, rpc, <strong>and</strong>services.By default, ldapaddent reads from the st<strong>and</strong>ard input <strong>and</strong> adds this data to the<strong>LDAP</strong> container associated with the database specified on the comm<strong>and</strong> line. But aninput file from which data should be read can be specified using the -f option.158 System Administration Guide: <strong>Naming</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Directory</strong> <strong>Services</strong> (<strong>DNS</strong>, <strong>NIS</strong>, <strong>and</strong> <strong>LDAP</strong>) • January 2005

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