Viewing Current Acis; Creating A New Aci - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Creating ACIs from the Console
For information on navigating through the Access Control dialog boxes, refer to
the online help.

Viewing Current ACIs

If you want to see what ACIs apply to a particular subtree in your directory,
follow these steps:
In the Directory tab, right-click the top entry in the subtree, and choose Set
1.
Access Permissions from the pop-up menu.
The Access Control Manager window is displayed. It contains the list of ACIs
belonging to the entry.
Check the checkbox for Show Inherited ACIs if you want to display the full
2.
list of ACIs that apply to the entry.

Creating a New ACI

To create a new ACI:
Display the Access Control Editor.
1.
This task is explained in "Displaying the Access Control Editor," on page 238.
If the view displayed is different from Figure 6-3, on page 239, click the Edit
Visually button.
Name the ACI by typing a name in the ACI Name text box.
2.
The name can be any string you want to use to identify uniquely the ACI. If
you do not enter a name, the server uses
In the Users/Groups tab, select the users to whom you are granting access by
3.
highlighting All Users or clicking the Add button to search the directory for
the users to add.
In the Add Users and Groups window:
a.
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Select a search area from the drop-down list, enter a search string in the
Search field, and click the Search button.
The search results are displayed in the list below.
Highlight the entries you want in the search result list, and click the Add
button to add them to the list of entries which have access permission.
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unnamed ACI