Creating a Basic Subscriber Entry

Before you can create subscriber entries, the domain and the People organizational unit entries must exist. Once you have created those entries, you can edit a text file (for example, people.ldif) and enter the data for the subscriber. The basic subscriber entry has the single object class ispSubscriber, and very few mandatory attributes. The file for a basic subscriber looks like this:

dn: cn=Jane Doe (jldoe),ou=People,ou=wcgate1,ou=eng,o=sun,c=US 
commonname:Jane Doe (jldoe) 
sn: Doe
uid: jldoe 
userpassword: hidden 
objectclass: ispSubscriber 

Where

dn

Is the distinguished name of the subscriber entry. Use the appropriate DN for subscriber entries in the desired domain.

commonName

Is the naming attribute of a subscriber entry (ispSubscriber object class). For Solaris ISP Server subscribers and administrators, the value of the commonName attribute takes the form Firstname Lastname (userid).

sn

Is the surname of the subscriber.

uid

Is the login name of the subscriber.

userPassword

Is the password, limited to eight characters if you are sharing password information with UNIX accounts. This value is generated with the encryption method you set in the directory services administration console.

objectClass: ispSubscriber

Is the object class type of this subscriber entry.

You can create any number of subscriber entries by adding blocks of data with different attribute values to the file. When it is complete, save and close people.ldif. Add the subscriber entries to the directory with the following command, replacing the bind DN and password with your own:

% ldapadd -D "cn=admin,o=sun,c=US" -w secret -f people.ldif