Tracking Modifications To Directory Entries - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Tracking Modifications to Directory Entries

You can configure the server to maintain special attributes for newly created or
modified entries:
• —The distinguished name of the person who initially created
creatorsName
the entry.
•
createTimestamp
(Greenwich Mean Time) format.
• —The distinguished name of the person who last modified the
modifiersName
entry.
•
modifyTimestamp
GMT format.
When a database link is used by a client application to create or
NOTE
modify entries, the
do not reflect the real creator or modifier of the entries. These
attributes contain the name of the administrator who is granted
proxy authorization rights on the remote server. For information on
proxy authorization, refer to "Providing Bind Credentials," on page
99.
To enable the Directory Server to track this information:
On the Directory Server Console, select the Configuration tab and then select
1.
the top entry in the navigation tree in the left pane.
Select the Settings tab in the right pane.
2.
Select the Track Entry Modification Times checkbox.
3.
The server adds the
modifyTimestamp
Click Save and then restart the server.
4.
See "Starting and Stopping the Directory Server," on page 31 for more
information.
—The timestamp for when the entry was created in GMT
—The timestamp for when the entry was last modified in
creatorsName
,
creatorsName createTimestamp
attributes to every newly created or modified entry.
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Configuring LDAP Parameters
and
modifiersName
,
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