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Using Roles
Browse the navigation tree in the left pane to locate the base DN for your role.
2.
Roles appear in the right pane with other entries.
Select the role. Select Activate from the Object menu.
3.
You can also right-click the role and select Activate from the menu.
The role is reactivated.
To see inactivated entries, select Inactivation State from the View menu.The
role icon appears as normal, indicating that the role is active.
Deleting a Role
Deleting a role deletes the role only, not its members.
To delete a role:
In the Directory Server Console, select the Directory tab.
1.
Browse the navigation tree in the left pane to locate the base DN for your role.
2.
Roles appear in the right pane with other entries.
Right-click the role and select Delete.
3.
A dialog box appears asking you to confirm the deletion. Click Yes.
The Deleted Entries dialog box appears to inform you that the role was
4.
successfully deleted. Click OK.
NOTE
Managing Roles Using the Command Line
Roles inherit from the
X.509 standard. In addition, each type of role has two specific object classes that
inherits from the
assign members to it as follows:
•
Members of a managed role have the
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Deleting a role deletes the role entry but does not delete the
attribute for each role member. If you want to delete the
nsRoleDN
attribute for each role member, enable the Referential
nsRoleDN
Integrity Plug-in and configure it to manage the nsRoleDN attribute.
For more information on the Referential Integrity Plug-in see ,
"Maintaining Referential Integrity" on page 68.
ldapsubentry
nsRoleDefinition
object class, which is defined in the ISO/IEC
object class. Once you create a role, you
attribute in their entry.
nsRoleDN
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