User Guide

248 Getting Results with Novell Web Services
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
103-000133-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Additional Information about User Entries
The following information might be of interest to the network administrator
concerning creating user entries:
 User entries use the inetOrgPerson, organizationalPerson, and person
object classes. For more information on how these are used, search the
Novell Support Connection Web site (http://support.novell.com).
 By default, the distinguished name for users is as follows:
cn=full name, ou=organization, ...,o=base organization,
c=country
For example, if a user entry for Sam Warden is created within the
Organizational Unit Engineering, and the directory's suffix is O=Ace
Industry, C=US, then the person's DN is
CN=Sam Warden, OU=Engineering, O=Ace Industry, C=US
However, you can change this format to a UID-based distinguised name.
 Suffixes are optional if you are using the local directory. If you did not
configure a suffix for your local directory, then you literally use the string
“ “ (quote quote) to represent the search base on calls to ldapsearch.
 The values on the user form fields are stored as the following LDAP
attributes:
The following fields are also available when editing the user entry:
User Field Corresponding LDAP Attribute
Given Name givenName
Surname sn
Full Name cn
User ID uid
Password userPassword
E-Mail Address mail
User Field Corresponding LDAP Attribute
Title title
Telephone telephoneNumber