Acknowledgments

This book is made possible through the generous support of many individuals. We sincerely appreciate the time and effort that everyone donated to bring this book to publication.

We would like to give a special thanks to the following people for their invaluable technical expertise and support, which contributed to technical quality and completeness of this book:

Ludovic Poitou Sun ONE Product engineer

Neil A. Wilson Sun ONE Product engineer

Jeff T. Moore Solaris Naming Services engineer

We would also like to thank the following people for their invaluable technical contribution and support, which also contributed to technical quality and completeness of this book:

Michen Chang Solaris Naming Services engineer

Joep Vesseur Solaris Security Technology engineer

Unai Gaston Caminos Sun ONE Products engineer

Sylvain Duloutre Sun ONE Products engineer

John S. Howard Sun Enterprise Engineering engineer

We would like to express our gratitude to those people who contributed to this book through their proficiencies in management and book development:

Cathy Miller	Lucy Ruble	Dany Gilgani
Peter Cunningham	Glenn Wright	Barb Jugo
Vicky Hardman	Gary Rush	Sue Blumenberg
Billie Markim	Wendy Werges

Many thanks are owed to our families who provided encouragement and understanding when we needed it most. Thank you Jeanne Tringali, Bryony Haines, and Chris Ruble.

Finally, we want to thank the many readers of our first book, Solaris and LDAP Naming Services, Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise . After all, it was those readers who took the time to share their thoughts and experiences with the first book that provided the inspiration and motivation for this book.