LDAP-UX B.05.00 released

[Bob Neal-Joslin]

This message is to announce the availability of a new release of LDAP-UX, version B.05.00. Significant features added to this release include:

SSH Key Management:
Allows for management of ssh host keys used by HP Secure Shell. By placing ssh host keys in the directory server, trust can be pre-established between hosts, eliminating the need for users to respond to the "man-in-the-middle" prompts. LDAP-UX can also be used to centrally manage ssh configuration.

Guided Installation Mode:
More than just "Guided Installation", this mode greatly simplifies the installation of LDAP-UX. Guided Installation can provide complete configuration to enable HP-UX to use LDAP centralized management, while requiring only minimal input (the directory server host name or Windows domain name plus an administrators name and password). Guided Installation mode can also create a new directory server instance (using HP-UX Directory server) and define an LDAP-UX "domain" that provides a management framework for centralized user, group and host management (including ssh host keys).

Long Term Identity & Credential Caching:
Allows for HP-UX to continue functioning with cached data, even when connection with the directory server has been lost.

Host Management Tools:
Provides a context aware and simplified interface for command-line or scripted management of host data (including ssh keys) in the directory server.

IPv6 support:
LDAP-UX services and utilities have been enhanced to support the IPv6 protocol. Connections to a directory server with an IPv6 address is supported by ldapclientd (used to manage all OS interactions with the directory server) as well as the LDAP utilities provided with LDAP-UX.

Local-only Configuration:
Optionally, version B.05.00 allows LDAP-UX to be configured with a locally defined configuraiton profile instead of requiring the configuration profile be stored in the directory server. This feature allows LDAP-UX to be configured when there are restrictions in adding the configuration profile schema to the directory server.

Library Versioning added to the LDAP SDK:
Version B.05.00 delivers named versions of both the 5.17.1 and 6.0.5 versions of the LDAP C SDK to improve compatibility with applications.

[Bob Neal-Joslin]

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