Prerequisites to LDAP Client Setup
In order for a Solaris client to use LDAP as a naming
service the following needs to be in place.
The client's domain name must be served by the LDAP server
The nsswitch.conf file needs to point to LDAP for the required services
The client needs to be configured with all the given parameters that define its behavior
ldap_cachemgr needs to be running on the client
At least one server for which a client is configured must be up and running
The ldapclient utility is the key to setting up an LDAP client, as
it performs all of the above steps, except for starting the server.
The rest of this chapter will show examples of how to use
the ldapclient utility to set up an LDAP client and use the
various other LDAP utilities to get information about, and check the status of,
an LDAP client.
