Redhat Directory Server Client Installation and Configuration for AIX and Solaris
Hello,
I have been searching for Redhat Directory Server client installation and configuration instructions for AIX and Solaris. Has some one configured RDS on AIX or Solaris clients?
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I'm not sure what you mean by a "Red Hat Directory Server Client"--RHDS is a generic LDAP v3 server, so any LDAP v3 client (command line tools, GUI tools, applications, and operating-system-level integration) will work with it.
I have no AIX experience, but I do use Solaris (9 and 10) systems with our LDAP servers; just last week, we set up new Red Hat DS 9.1 servers that will eventually replace our Solaris-based LDAP servers. Re-configuring Solaris to use RHDS instead of the old Sun/iPlanet LDAP server was fairly easy--the only change we needed was to replace the SSL root certificate database in /var/ldap/cert8.db with one that supports our new root CA, and change the server name to our new server(s).
Actually configuring a Solaris system to use LDAP for user accounts, passwords, groups, etc. is probably beyond the scope of this forum--it requires understanding and modifying PAM configuration files (same name but different layout from the Linux /etc/pam.d/ files), /etc/nsswitch.conf (again, slightly differently from the LDAP configuration used in Linux), and running the "ldapclient" tool to configure the system-level LDAP settings (server, proxy authentication credentials if needed, search base, scope, etc.)
If you are referring more to the RHDS Admin Console utility, that is probably best to run on the Red Hat Directory Server itself, and display via X Windows. Non-administrator users who need an LDAP GUI are probably better served by a generic LDAP utility like Apache Directory Studio, or a web-based tool like phpLDAPadmin.
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