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Directory Settings
User Directory Settings
When you're installing a Netscape server, you are prompted to specify a user
directory that is associated with the administration domain in which the server will
be located. By default, this association is inherited at all levels beneath the
administration domain. Server groups and the individual servers within them use
the same user directory as the domain.
There may be times when you need to override default user directory settings at
the server group or domain level. For example, you may need to change the user
directory for a domain when you upgrade to a new Directory Server. Or you might
want to temporarily change the user directory for a server group when you're
testing a new instance of Directory Server and don't want to use your existing user
directory with it.
User Authentication and Directory Failover Support
When a user logs in to Netscape Console, the user enters a user ID that is checked
against the user directory. If the user ID cannot be authenticated in a user directory,
the user cannot successfully log in to Netscape Console.
You can employ more than one user directory for authenticating user IDs. This is
useful when the instance of Directory Server containing your primary user
directory is not accessible. If the user directory has been replicated on other hosts,
Netscape Console continues to check the user ID against each user directory in the
list until authentication succeeds or there are no more entries in the list. This ability
to check multiple instances of Directory Server is called failover support.
To list the user directories to use for failover support, follow the instructions for
"Changing User Directory Settings for a Domain" on page 128 or "To Change User
Directory Settings for a Server Group." on page 130. For information on replicating
the user directory, see the Directory Server 4.0 Administrator's Guide.
Changing User Directory Settings for a Domain
If you are the configuration administrator, you can change the user directory
settings for a domain.
CAUTION
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Changing the Directory Server host name or port number impacts
the rest of the servers in the administration domain. If you change a
setting here, you must restart all the servers in the administration
domain.
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