Does Netscape Active Directory on Application CD need a license to intall?

[MA Qiang]

Whether Netscape Active Directory is one of LDAP Servers?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

If its visible without entering a sd/ux code word, then the answer is no.

What I mean is if you can mount it and see it on the cd no additional licensing is required.

SEP

[MA Qiang]

Thanks!
What is the different between the Netscape Directory Server (Active Directory)and Open LDAP Server?

[Steven E. Protter]

LDAP is one way of storing the information. LDAP servers can run on Linux, Unix or Windows.

L-lightweight
D-data or database
A-authentication (my guess)
P-protocol (my guess)

Active Directory(ADS) is a windows specific authentication that ships with Windows server products. It is possible to use CIFS/Samba on HP-UX to simulate most of these capabilities, but I'm not sure what value ADS has without a windows ADS server to interact with.

For either protocol it is possible to integrate unix regular user authenticaton (non root admin) with an authentication server that is not HP-UX.

SEP

[support_5]

LDAP=

L = Lightweight
D = Directory
A = Access
P = Protocol

It's has the bare-bones basics of the X. 500 directory protocols.

Microsoft Active Directory is merely an implementation of LDAP, as is Netscape Directory Server, OpenLDAP etc etc

- Andy

[support_5]

And no, you don't need a key to access the software on the CD's. It's a freely distributed product from HP.

- Andy

[MA Qiang]

Thanks.