Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 Installation Manual page 54

Using Typical Installation
For server identifier, enter a unique value (normally the default is sufficient).
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This value is used as part of the name of the directory in which the Directory
Server instance is installed. For example, if your machine's host name is
phonebook
Directory Server instance to be installed into a directory labeled
slapd-phonebook
For a directory suffix, enter a distinguished name (DN) that is meaningful to
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your enterprise.
This string is used to form the name of all your organization's directory entries.
Therefore, pick some name that is representative of your organization. It is
recommended that you pick a suffix that corresponds to your Internet DNS
name. For example, if your organization uses the DNS name
then enter
For the Directory Server port, select the default (389) unless you already have
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another application using that port.
For Configuration Directory Administrator ID and password, enter the name
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and password that you will log in as when you want to authenticate to the
console with full privileges.
For Administration Domain, enter the domain to which you want this server to
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belong.
The name that you enter should be a unique string that is descriptive of the
organization responsible for administering the domain. For information on
administration domains, see "Determining the Administration Domain," on
page 18.
For Directory Manager DN, enter the DN that you will use when managing the
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contents of your directory with unlimited privileges.
NOTE
In former releases of Directory Server, the Directory Manager was known as
the root DN. This is the entry that you bind to the directory as when you want
access control to be ignored. This DN can be short and does not have to
conform to any suffix configured for your directory. However, it should not
correspond to an actual entry stored in your directory.
For Directory Manager password, enter a value that is at least 8 characters
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long.
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then this name is the default and selecting it will cause the
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dc=example,dc=com
Any DN must be entered in the UTF-8 character set encoding. Older
encodings such as ISO-8859-1 are not supported.
here. Avoid space characters in the suffix.
,
example.com