You edit user attributes from the Enterprise Administration Server Manage Users form. From this form you can find, change, rename, and delete user entries; manage user licenses; and potentially change product-specific information.
Some, but not all, Netscape servers add additional forms to this area that allow you to manage product-specific information. For example, if a messaging server is installed under your Enterprise Administration Server, then an additional form is added that allows you to edit messaging server-specific information. See the server documentation for details on these additional management capabilities.
This section includes the following topics:
Finding User Information
Before you can edit a user entry, you must display the associated information. To find the specific user information, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose the Users & Groups tab.
Click the Manage Users link.
In the Find User field, enter some descriptive value for the entry that you want to edit. You can enter any of the following in the search field:
In the Look within field, select the organizational unit under which you want to search for entries. The default is the directory's root point (or top most entry).
In the Format field, choose either On-Screen or Printer.
Click Find. All the users in the selected organizational unit are displayed.
In the resulting table, click the name of the entry that you want to edit.
The user edit form is displayed. Change the displayed fields as desired and click Save Changes. The changes are made immediately.
Building Custom Search Queries
The Find all users whose field allows you to build a custom search filter. Use this field to narrow down the search results returned by a "Find user" search.
The Find all users whose field provides the following search criteria:
To display all of the users entries contained in the Look Within directory, enter either an asterisk (*) or simply leave this text field blank.
Search Attribute Options
The available search attribute options are described in the following table:
Search Type Options
The available search type options are described in the following table:
Table 4.4 Search Type Options
Option Name
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Description
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contains
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Causes a substring search to be performed. Entries with attribute values containing the specified search string are returned. For example, if you know an user's name probably contains the word "Dylan," use this option with the search string "Dylan" to find the user's entry.
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is
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Causes an exact match to be found. That is, this option specifies an equality search. Use this option when you know the exact value of an user's attribute. For example, if you know the exact spelling of the user's name, use this option.
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isn't
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Returns all the entries whose attribute value does not exactly match the search string. That is, if you want to find all the users in the directory whose name is not "Sally Ride", use this option. Be aware, however, that use of this option can cause an extremely large number of entries to be returned to you.
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sounds like
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Causes an approximate, or phonetic, search to be performed. Use this option if you know an attribute's value, but you are unsure of the spelling. For example, if you are not sure if a user's name is spelled "Sarret," "Sarette," or "Sarett," use this option.
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starts with
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Causes a substring search to be performed. Returns all the entries whose attribute value starts with the specified search string. For example, if you know a user's name starts with "Miles," but you do not know the rest of the name, use this option.
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ends with
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Causes a substring search to be performed. Returns all the entries whose attribute value ends with the specified search string. For example, if you know a user's name ends with "Dimaggio," but you do not know the rest of the name, use this option.
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Editing User Information
To change a user's entry, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose the Users & Groups tab.
Display the user entry as described in Finding User Information.
Edit the field corresponding to the attribute that you wish to change.
For more information, see The Edit Users Page.
Note.
It is possible that you will want to change an attribute value that is not displayed by the edit user form. In this situation, use the Directory Server ldapmodify command line utility, if available.
In addition, note that you can change the user's first, last, and full name field
from this form, but to fully rename the entry (including the entry's distinguished
name), you need to use the Rename User form. For more information on how
to rename an entry, see Renaming Users.
Managing a User's Password
The password you set for user entries is used by the various Netscape servers for user authentication.
To change or create a user's password, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose Users & Groups tab.
Display the user entry as described in Finding User Information.
Make the desired changes and click OK.
For more information, see The Manage Users Page.
Note.
You can change the Enterprise Administration Server user from root to another user on the operating system to enable multiple users (belonging to the group) to edit/manage the configuration files. However, note that while on UNIX platforms, the installer can give "rw" permissions to a group for the configuration files, on Windows NT platforms, the user must belong to the "Administrators" group.
Note.
You can also disable the user's password by clicking the Disable Password button. Doing this prevents the user from logging into a Netscape server without deleting the user's directory entry. You can allow access for the user again by using the Password Management Form to enter a new password.
Managing User Licenses
Enterprise Administration Server enables you to track which Netscape server products your users are licensed to use.
To manage the licenses available to the user, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose the Users & Groups tab.
Display the user entry as described in Finding User Information.
Click the Licenses link at the top of the User Edit form.
Make the desired changes and click OK.
For more information, see The Manage Users Page.
Renaming Users
The rename feature changes only the user's name; all other fields are left intact. In addition, the user's old name is still preserved so searches against the old name will still find the new entry.
When you rename a user entry, you can only change the user's name; you
cannot use the rename feature to move the entry from one organizational unit
to another. For example, suppose you have organizational units for Marketing
and Accounting and an entry named "Billie Holiday" under the Marketing
organizational unit. You can rename the entry from Billie Holiday to Doc
Holiday, but you cannot rename the entry such that Billie Holiday under the
Marketing organizational unit becomes Billie Holiday under the Accounting
organizational unit.
To rename a user entry, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose the Users & Groups tab.
Display the user entry as described in Finding User Information.
Click the Rename User button.
Change the Given Name, Surname, Full Name, or UID fields as is appropriate to match the new distinguished name for the entry.
You can specify that Enterprise Administration Server no longer retains the old full name or uid values when you rename the entry by setting the keepOldValueWhenRenaming parameter to false. You can find this parameter in the following file:
For more information, see The Manage Users Page.
Removing Users
To delete a user entry, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose the Users & Groups tab.
Display the user entry as described in Finding User Information.
Click Delete User.
For more information, see The Manage Users Page.
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