LDAP Related Documentation at Sun

This is an attempt at collating all the relevant documentation that Sun has with respect to LDAP including blue prints, books, admin guides, infodocs, etc. A lot of these links were collected with the help of my colleague, Michael Haines. I am sure there will be more links I will find and I will try to keep this entry up-to-date. If you know of more documents that I should link to here, drop me a line at anup [dot] sekhar [at] sun [dot] com.

Please note that some of these links require registration and/or a Sun Service Plan. For an explanation of what types of documents these are, click here.

Sun Docs

• System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)
• System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)

Sun Blueprints

• Understanding the NIS to LDAP Service (N2L) Architecture (Haines/Kenkre)
• Automating LDAP Client Installations (Bialaski/Haines)
• Using the LDAP to NIS+ Gateway (Bialaski/Haines)
• Transition Guide ? Upgrading from the iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Software to the Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2 Software (Bialaski/Haines)
• Understanding Solaris 9 Operating Environment Directory Services (Bialaski/Haines)
• Extending Authentication in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment Using Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM): Part II (Haines/Vesseur)
• Extending Authentication in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment Using Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM): Part I (Haines/Vesseur)
• Securing LDAP Through TLS/SSL ? A Cookbook (Haines/Weber)
• Demystifying the Directory Information Tree (DIT) (Bialaski/Haines)
• Implementing LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment (Bialaski/Haines)
• NIS+ to LDAP Migration in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Bialaski/Haines/Ukberg)
• LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment: Deploying Secure Directory Services (Bialaski/Haines)
• Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise (Bialaski/Haines)

Symptoms & Resolutions

• Solaris 8 LDAP Client Breaks After Installing patch 108993-18
• SunONE Directory Server: Changing Passwords in a Secure LDAP Environment
• ldaplist and ldapaddent -d fail with: LDAP ERROR (11): Administrative limit exceeded
• Errors from idsconfig Setting up Solaris 9 Native LDAP Server
• Native LDAP clients might be unable for some time to resolve information from server
• Expired Password Loops in Native LDAP Phase I Clients

Infodocs

• Migrating netgroup maps from Network Information Services (NIS) to native LDAP
• How to Prevent the Display of Encrypted Passwords in SunONE Directory Server Using pam_ldap
• How to Hide Native LDAP userPassword attribute in ldaplist output
• Setup Automount Maps to Mount Home Directory in Native LDAP
• Restricting Logins with Native LDAP
• Solaris[TM] 8 and 9 Native LDAP clients and Automount Maps
• Restricting logins on a machine using compat mode and netgroups
• ldapmodify command

PSDs

• LDAP PSD Document (Andra)

Our first opensolaris project

Finally, my group has a project on opensolaris! Today, we went live with Sparks -- nsswitch.conf/nscd enhancements -- on opensolaris. Please browse the project pages and join the sparks-discuss discussion alias if you would like to contribute.