Solaris 11 Client against OpenLDAP Server

Oracle provide a wealth of information for using various Naming and Directory Services with a Solaris OS as the client. Sometimes it’s hard to see the wood for the trees, therefore the following attempts to explain how to configure your Solaris 11 client to get user (passwd) and group (group) information from an OpenLDAP server. I assume you don’t have full control over your OpenLDAP server, or don’t want to bend over backwards to accommodate the Solaris client....

October 2, 2012