Creating Users

1. From the NetWare Web Manager home page, click Users and Groups > organization > New User.

2. In the appropriate fields, enter the requested information. At a minimum, you must specify the user's

   • Surname
   • User ID

   After entering a user's first and surnames, the ID is automatically generated in the User ID field. You can replace this user ID with an ID of your own choice if you want.

   IMPORTANT:  The user ID must be unique. NetWare Web Manager ensures that it is unique by searching the entire directory begining at the search base (base DN) to see if the user ID is in use. However, if you use the ldapmodify command line utility to create a user, be aware that the utility does not ensure unique user IDs. If duplicate user IDs exist in your directory, the effected users will not be able to authenticate to the directory.

3. Click Create User to add a user.

For information on editing users, see Managing Users.

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 .
• 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: