LDAP authentication

[Robert True]

Anyone using LDAP with HPUX for user login authentication? If so, what LDAP, what security modules (I assume HPUX 11.0 can use PAM modules), how difficult to activate, any problems, etc?

[Santosh Nair_1]

I've just started experimenting with LDAP for login authentication on HPUX. It works quite seemlessly. The only big gripe I have with it is that the LDAP-UX client doesn't currently support SSL (although it looks like that will be in the next release ?).

LDAP-UX uses a PAM module and also supports NSS so you can add ldap to your search path in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The client also includes a NIS-to-LDAP gateway.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Klaus Jørgensen]

Hi,

we're using it for authenticating our ~8000 users without problems.
The supplied documentation basically enabled me to set it up, and it's working fine against 2 OpenLDAPs.
HP doesn't support OpenLDAP, and it took a bit of tweaking to configure the right schemas; if you're not familiar with LDAP, it may be wisest to go with one of the supported ones.

Klaus