Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 697

To configure the databases managed by your LDAP server, proceed as follows:
1 Select the Databases item in the left part of the dialog.
2 Click Add Database to add the new database.
3 Enter the requested data:
Base DN
Enter the base DN of your LDAP server.
Root DN
Enter the DN of the administrator in charge of the server. If you check Append
Base DN, only provide the cn of the administrator and the system fills in
the rest automatically.
LDAP Password
Enter the password for the database administrator.
Encryption
Determine the encryption algorithm to use to secure the password of Root
DN. Choose crypt, smd5, ssha, or sha. The dialog also includes a plain option
to enable the use of plain text passwords, but enabling this is not recommend-
ed for security reasons. To confirm your settings and return to the previous
dialog, select OK.
4 Enable enforcement of password policies to provide extra security to your LDAP
server:
4a Select Password Policy Settings to be able specify a password policy.
4b Activate Hash Clear Text Passwords to have clear text passwords be hashed
before they are written to the database whenever they are added or modified.
4c Disclose Account Locked Status provides a meaningful error message to bind
requests to locked accounts.
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