17.6 Searching for Users in a User LDAP Directory

The User Management task of the Novell iFolder Management Console allows you to perform a simple search or an advanced search of your user LDAP directory for users whose accounts you want to manage.

Search

  1. From the iFolder Management Console, click User Management, then click Search in the left navigator.

  2. Use one of these methods to find the user account:

    • To list all the users in your system, regardless of where their accounts are located, leave the Enter Username field blank.
    • To narrow your search, type letters in the Enter Username field, then click Search. The search returns only the iFolder user accounts that begin with the letter or letters that you entered.
    • To find a known user account, type the username.

  3. Click Search.

Advanced Search

  1. From the iFolder Management Console, click User Management, then click Advanced Search.

  2. Use the Advanced Search for Users, as shown in Figure 16-12, to obtain a list of users whose accounts you want to manage.

    IMPORTANT:If an Admin object resides on multiple LDAP servers, do not enable this object as an iFolder user. If you have only one LDAP server and one corresponding Admin user, you can enable this object; however, we do not recommend it.

    Figure 17-3 Search Criteria for Advanced Searches

    The iFolder Management Console provides an Advanced Search feature. You can use the following search criteria to narrow your search:

    User Category Syntax

    Operator Syntax

    Name

    Starts With

    Last Name

    Ends With

    First Name

    Contains

    E-mail Address

    Equals

    User Type (All Users, iFolder Users, Non-iFolder Users)

    Does Not Start With

    iFolder Server (All, select from list)

    Does Not End With

    In User LDAP: Context (All, select from list)

    Does Not Contain

     

    Does Not Equal

    To search for multiple users whose usernames begin with different letters, type the first letter of each name separated by a semicolon. For example, if you wanted to search for all usernames that begin with the letters A through D, select Name and Starts With operators, then type the following in the user name field

    a;b;c;d

  3. Click Search.

    The search returns a list of found user accounts. Each username is hyperlinked to the user’s account information.

    Figure 17-4 User Management > Advanced Search > Search Results