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

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Configuring the PTA Plug-In
472 Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • August 2002
3.
Restart the server.
For information on restarting the server, refer to “Starting and Stopping the
Directory Server,” on page 35.
Specifying the Authenticating Directory Server
The authenticating directory contains the bind credentials for the entry with which
the client is attempting to bind. The PTA directory passes the bind request to the
host you define as the authenticating directory. You specify the authenticating
directory server by replacing authDS in the LDAP URL of the PTA directory with
the authenticating directory’s hostname.
To specify the authenticating directory for PTA:
1.
Create an LDIF file that contains the following LDIF update statements:
dn: cn=Pass Through Authentication,cn=plugins,cn=config
cn: Pass Through Authentication
changetype: add
add: nsslapd-pluginarg0
nsslapd-pluginarg0: ldap://
authDS
/
subtree
[
optional_parameters
]
Optionally, you can include a colon followed by a port number. If you do not
specify the port number, the PTA directory server attempts to connect using:
❍
Port 389 if
ldap://
is specified in the URL.
❍
Port 636 if
ldaps://
is specified in the URL.
For example, you could set the value of the
nsslapd-pluginarg0
attribute to:
"ldap://dirserver.example.com:389/
subtree
[
Parameters
]"
For information on the variable components in this sytax, refer to “PTA Plug-In
Parameters,” on page 468.
2.
Use the
ldapmodify
command to import the LDIF file into the directory.
3.
Restart the server.
For information on restarting the server, refer to “Starting and Stopping the
Directory Server,” on page 35.