OPS535 Directory Service

Please read chapter 26 (NIS) and 27 (LDAP) and review the following terms/concepts and commands.

Concepts

• Network Information Service
• Domain
• Makefile
• local user and network user account
• LDAP Directory
• DIT - Directory Information Tree
• RN and DN
• Directory server
• Directory entry
• Attributes of a directory entry
• Schema
• LDIF - LDAP Data Interchange format

Commands

• ypinit
• ypserv
• ypbind
• domainname
• make
• ypcat
• ypwhich
• ypmatch
• yppasswd
• ldap commands (see page 686)