Managing Groups

From the Group Edit form you can

• Find groups
• Change group attributes
• Add and delete owners of the group
• Add and delete See Also information
• Add and delete members of the group
• Rename the group
• Delete the group
• Change the group's description

The following sections describe these activities in detail.

Finding Group Entries

1. From the Web Manager home page, click NetWare Enterprise Web Server servername > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

2. In the Find Group field, type the name of the group that you want to find.

   You can enter any of the following in the search field:

   • A name: Type a full name or a partial name
   • An asterisk (*): Type to see all of the groups currently residing in your directory
   • Any LDAP search filter: Type to see any string that contains an equal sign (=) that is considered to be a search filter

3. In the Format field, select either On-Screen or Printer.

4. Click Find.

5. In the resulting table, click the name of the entry you want to edit.

The Find All Groups Whose Field

This field lets you build a custom search filter. Use this field to narrow down the search results.

Find All Groups Whose provides the following search criteria:

1. The left drop-down list lets you specify the attribute that the search is based on.

   The options are

   • Full Name
   • Description

2. In the middle drop-down list, select the type of search you want to perform.

   The options include the following:

   • Contains: Entries with attribute values containing the specified search string are returned.
   • Is: Use this option when you know the exact value of a group's attribute.
   • Isn't: Returns all the entries whose attribute value does not exactly match the search string. If you want to find all the groups in the directory whose names do not contain administrator, use this option.
   • Sounds Like: 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 group's name is spelled Sarret's list, Sarette's list, or Sarett's list, use this option.
   • Starts With: Returns all the entries whose attribute values start with the specified search string.
   • Ends With: Returns all the entries whose attribute values end with the specified search string.

3. In the right-most text field, type your search string.

Editing Group Attributes

1. From the Web Manager home page, click NetWare Enterprise Web Server servername > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

2. Find the group you want to edit.

   See Finding Group Entries for more information.

3. In the Group Edit form, change the displayed fields as desired.

4. Click Save Changes.

   HINT:  To change an attribute value that is not displayed by the group edit form, use the ldapmodify command line utility.

Adding Group Members

1. From the Web Manager home page, click NetWare Enterprise Web Server servername > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

2. Find the group you want to add members to.

   See Finding Group Entries for more information.

3. Click Edit under Group Members.

   A new form is displayed that allows you to search for entries. If you want to add user entries to the list, make sure Users is shown in the Find drop-down list. If you want to add group entries to the group, make sure Group is shown.

4. In the right-most text field, type a search string.

   Type any of the following:

   • A name: Type a full name or a partial name
   • A user ID: Use if you are searching for user entries
   • A telephone number
   • An e-mail address: Any search string containing an at (@) symbol is assumed to be an e-mail address
   • An asterisk (*): Type an asterisk to see all of the entries or groups currently residing in your directory
   • Any LDAP search filter: Type a search filter to see any string that contains an equal sign (=) is considered to be a search filter

5. Click Find and Add to find all the matching entries and add them to the group.

   If the search returns any entries that you do not want add to the group, check the box in the Remove from List column. You can also construct a search filter to match the entries you want removed and then click Find and Remove.

6. When the list of group members is complete, click Save Changes.

Adding Groups to the Group Members List

You can add groups (instead of individual members) to the group's members list. Doing so causes any users belonging to the included group to become a member of the receiving group. For example, if Sam Warren is a member of the Marketing Managers group, and you make the Marketing Managers group a member of the Marketing Personnel group, then Sam Warren is also a member of the Marketing Personnel group.

To add a group to the members list of another group, add the group as if it were a user entry. See Adding Group Members for more information.

Removing Entries from the Group Members List

To delete an entry from the group members list:

1. From the Web Manager home page, click NetWare Enterprise Web Server servername > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

2. Find the group you want to edit.

   See Finding Group Entries for more information.

3. Click Edit under Group Members.

4. For each member that you want to remove from the list, check the corresponding box under the Remove from List column.

5. Click Save Changes.

Managing Owners

You manage a group's owners list the same way as you manage the group members list. The following table shows you which section to read for more information.

Managing See Alsos

See alsos are references to other directory entries that might be relevant to the current group. They allow users to easily find entries for people and other groups that are related to the current group.

You manage see alsos the same way as you manage the group members list. The following table shows you which section to read for more information.

Removing Groups

1. From the Web Manager home page, click NetWare Enterprise Web Server servername > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

2. Find the group you want to delete.

   See Finding Group Entries for more information.

3. Click Delete Group > OK.

Renaming Groups

1. From the Web Manager home page, click NetWare Enterprise Web Server servername > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

2. Find the group you want to edit.

   See Finding Group Entries for more information.

3. Click Rename Group.

4. Type the new group name.

When you rename a group entry, you only change the group'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 Engineering
• A group named Research and Development under the Engineering Organizational Unit.

You can rename the group from Research and Development to Development and Research, but you cannot rename the entry such that Research and Development under the Engineering Organizational Unit becomes Research and Development under the Marketing Organizational Unit.