SIMS 3.5 Administrator's Guide: 6 - Sun Directory Services Administration

General Properties Configuration

The General Properties section allows you to configure the following directory server properties. To change these properties, go to the General Properties section of the Sun Directory Services Property Book.

AdminConsole>SUN Directory Services>General Properties

FIGURE 6-2 General Properties Section.

The name and password of the administrator, and how the password is stored. (Default: None. Must be specified. See "To Specify an Administrator Name, Password, and Distinguished Name" on page 166.)

Passwords encryption. (Default: Password stored in encrypted format.)

Whether the schema is checked when directory information is added or modified. (Default: Weak.) There are three levels of checking:

Off: no checking is performed

Weak: a check is performed when entries are created or modified

Strong: in addition to the previous level, a check is performed on search operations

Whether alias entries are to be dereferenced when a bind request is received, (Default: On.)

Default access, that is, the level of access granted to entries and attributes for which access control is not specifically defined. See CODE EXAMPLE 1-1 on page 39 for more detail

The ports used by LDAP and the email administrator's configuration interface. (Defaults: 389 and 1760 respectively). If you change the LDAP port, the IMTA directory synchronization will not work unless you perform the following additional step:

Change the parameter IMTA_LDAP_SERVER in
/etc/opt/SUNWmail/imta/imta_tailor to the new LDAP port value for this particular server. For example, if the LDAP port number is changed from 389 to 390, then change the entry from xxx.eng.sun.com:389 to xxx.eng.sun.com:390.

The maximum number of concurrent connections the server can accept. (Default: 256)

Search limits, time and number of entries. (Defaults: 5000 entries or 3600 seconds.) Search stops when the first of these limits is reached. To bypass these limits, bind to the Directory Server using the admin DN and password.)

The default directory server for referrals. Give the name of a server that holds knowledge information on subtrees not managed by the current server. (Default: No knowledge references to other servers.)