Netscape NETSCAPE DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR, Administrator'S Manual

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PTA Plug-In Syntax
468 Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • August 2002
Notes:
• The LDAP URL (ldap|ldaps://authDS/subtree) must be separated from the
optional parameters (maxconns, maxops, timeout, ldver, connlifetime) by a single
space.
• If you explicitly define any of the optional parameters, you must define all of
them, even if you specify only the default values.
• You can specify several authenticating directories or subtrees by incrementing
the
nsslapd-pluginarg
attribute suffix by 1 each time. This is illustrated in
“Specifying Multiple Authenticating Directory Servers,” on page 475.
The optional parameters are described in the following table in the order in which
they appear in the syntax.
Table 16-1 PTA Plug-In Parameters
Variable Definition
state Defines whether the plug-in is enabled or disabled. Acceptable values are
on
or
off
. See “Turning the Plug-in On or Off,” on page 470 for more information.
extension File extension for the plug-in. The extension is always
.sl
on HP-UX,
.so
on all
other UNIX platforms, and
.dll
on Windows NT.
ldap|ldaps Defines whether SSL is used for communication between the two directory
servers. See “Configuring the Servers to Use a Secure Connection,” on page 471
for more information.
authDS The authenticating directory hostname. You can specify the port number of the
directory server by adding a colon and then the port number. For example:
ldap://dirserver.example.com:390/
If you do not specify the port number, the PTA server attempts to connect using:
• Port 389 if
ldap://
is specified in the URL.
• Port 636 if
ldaps://
is specified in the URL.
See “Specifying the Authenticating Directory Server,” on page 472 for more
information.
subtree The pass-through subtree. The PTA directory server passes through bind
requests to the authenticating directory server from all clients whose DN is in
this subtree.
See “Specifying the Pass-Through Subtree,” on page 473 for more information.