Planning Your Proxy Users; About Proxy User Creation - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 12-2010 Implementation Manual

User cn=OESCommonProxy_myserver.o=novell is created with a system-generated password and
assigned the Common Proxy Policy password policy. The DNS and DHCP services are configured
to be serviced by the Common Proxy user.
Changing Proxy Passwords Automatically
You can configure your server so that your proxy users are regularly assigned new system-generated
passwords by doing the following:
1 Open the file
2 List the FQDN of each proxy user on the server that you want to automatic password
management set up for.
For example you might insert the following entries:
cn=OESCommonProxyUser_myserver.o=novell
cn=myproxy.o=novell
IMPORTANT: Users listed here must not be listed in the
other servers in the tree.
3 Save the file.
4 Enter the following commands:
cd /opt/novell/proxymgmt/bin
change_proxy_pwd.sh -A Yes
By default, the crontab job will run every 30 days.
I.4 Planning Your Proxy Users
Because of the prominent role played by the proxy users on your OES network, it is important that
you understand your implementation options and the implications for each option. You can then plan
an overall proxy user implementation strategy.
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Section I.4.1, "About Proxy User Creation," on page 270
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Section I.4.2, "There Are No Proxy User Impacts on User Connection Licenses," on page 274
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Section I.4.3, "Limiting the Number of Proxy Users in Your Tree," on page 274
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Section I.4.4, "Password Management and Proxy Users," on page 276
I.4.1 About Proxy User Creation
The first step in planning your proxy user implementation strategy is understanding the do's and
don'ts of proxy user creation.

"Creation Options" on page 270
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"Do Not Manually Configure Proxy Users" on page 273
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"Avoid Assigning an Admin User As a Proxy User" on page 274
Creation Options
Table I-2 presents information about the creation options for each OES proxy user.
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/etc/opt/novell/proxymgmt/proxy_users.conf
in a text editor.
file on any
proxy_users.conf