Symantec Veritas Cluster Server One, Installation Manual

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86 Setting up authentication plug-ins for VCS One
Setting up vx authentication
Domain Name: LDAP10
Domain Type: ldap
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Case sensitivity
Table 7-2 shows authentication service types with case-sensitive user names
and domain names:
Table 7-3 shows authentication service types with user names and domain
names that are not case sensitive:
Length limits
For Windows Active Directory and LDAP, Symantec recommends that you limit
user names and domain names to 40 characters or less. (Windows and LDAP
limit user names and domain names to 79 ASCII characters or less. If you use
non-ASCII characters, the limit varies.)
Setting up vx authentication
To set up Symantec Private Domain (vx) authentication, add the user to the
cluster private domain.
Table 7-2 Case-sensitive authentication service types
Authentication service type AT plug-in name
Symantec Private Domain vx
UNIX password domain unixpwd
Network Information Service (NIS) nis
NIS+ nisplus
Pluggable Authentication Modules
(PAM)
pam
Table 7-3 Case-insensitive authentication service types
Authentication service type AT plug-in name
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP)
ldap
Windows Active Directory ldap