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Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2 Administration Guide |
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Starting and Stopping Your Server Instance
Configuring the Server Instance
Configuring the Proxy Components
Configuring Security Between Clients and Servers
Configuring Security Between the Proxy and the Data Source
Configuring Servers With the Control Panel
Managing Root User, Global Administrator, and Administrator Accounts
Root Users and the Privilege Subsystem
Managing Root Users With dsconfig
To View the Default Root User Privileges
To Edit the Default Root User Privileges
To Change a Root User's Password
To Change a Root User's Privileges
Setting Root User Resource Limits
Managing Global Administrators
To Create an Administrator with Root User Privileges
Password Policies in a Replicated Environment
To View the List of Password Policies
Properties of the Default Password Policy
To View the Properties of the Default Password Policy
To Create a New Password Policy
To Create a First Login Password Policy
To Assign a Password Policy to an Individual Account
To Prevent Password Policy Modifications
To Assign a Password Policy to a Group of Users
To Change the Directory Manager's Password
To Reset and Generate a New Password for a User
Managing a User's Account Information
To View a User's Account Information
To View Account Status Information
Setting Resource Limits on a User Account
To Set Resource Limits on an Account
To Create a Static Group With groupOfNames
To Create a Static Group With groupOfUniqueNames
To Create a Static Group With groupOfEntries
To List All Members of a Static Group
To List All Static Groups of Which a User Is a Member
To Determine Whether a User is a Member of a Group
To List All Members of a Dynamic Group
To List All Dynamic Groups of Which a User Is a Member
To Determine Whether a User Is a Member of a Dynamic Group
Defining Virtual Static Groups
To Create a Virtual Static Group
To List All Members of a Virtual Static Group
To List All Virtual-Static Groups of Which a User Is a Member
To Determine Whether a User is a Member of a Virtual Static Group
Maintaining Referential Integrity
Overview of the Referential Integrity Plug-In
To Enable the Referential Integrity Plug-In
Simulating DSEE Roles in an OpenDS Directory Server
To Determine Whether a User is a Member of a Role
To Alter Membership by Using the nsRoleDN Attribute
Sun OpenDS Standard Edition provides one default root DN or root user, "cn=Directory Manager". The default root DN is a user entry assigned with specialized privileges with full read and write access to all data in the server. Comparable to a Unix root user or superuser, the root DN can bypass access controls to carry out tasks on the server. The root user is defined below the "cn=Root DNs,cn=config" branch of the server at cn=Directory Manager,cn=Root DNs,cn=config.
The server supports multiple root users who have their own entries and their own set of credentials on the server. This allows you to assign privileges to a user who might need root access for a particular task but might not need the full set of root user privileges. With each entry, you can assign strong authentication such as the GSSAPI SASL mechanism, password policies, or add resource limits (if your schema allows it) to one root user while having a completely different configuration for another root user.
Root users differ from regular user entries in the following ways:
Configuration. Root users are the only user accounts that can exist in the server configuration (cn=config).
Privilege inheritance. Root users automatically inherit the set of default root user privileges. Regular users do not automatically receive any privileges unless explicitly granted. You can grant privileges using real, virtual root-privilege-name attributes, or both in the entry.
Lockdown mode. Root users are the only users who can cause the server to enter or leave lockdown mode and only over the loopback interface.
The Privilege Subsystem supports the configuration of multiple root users.
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