Changing The Default Port Setting; Setting Up A Directory Manager For The Gateway - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - GATEWAY CUSTOMIZATION Manual

Gateway .conf File Configuration
•

Setting Up a Directory Manager for the Gateway

• Setting up the Suffix for Adding Entries
• Setting Up SSL Support
• Setting vCard Properties

Changing the Default Port Setting

The LDAP port is set during Directory Server installation. This value can be
changed in the
to specify a port number that is different than the default port number of 389. For
example, the
baseurl "ldaps://dirserver.example.com:3000/o%3Dexample.com"
Setting Up a Directory Manager for the Gateway
When Directory Server is installed, a default Directory Manager account
(
cn=Directory Manager
Server installation requires a root DN. If no root DN was configured when the
Directory Server was installed, then no default Directory Manager is configured for
the gateway.
It is strongly recommended that you use a different directory manager account for
the gateway, that is, an account other than
setup the new directory manager account (for example,
manager,cn=config
user entries under those sub suffixes. This enables the gateway directory manager
to change those users' passwords but prevents the entry from having complete
control of the Directory Server.
NOTE
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parameter. The following example shows the syntax used
baseurl
parameter in the LDAP port is changed to the following:
baseurl
) is setup with permissions to the root DN. The Directory
), use ACLs to restrict access to applicable sub suffixes and the
For security reasons, set the gateway Directory Manager to an entry
other than
cn=Directory Manager
cn=Directory Manager
cn=gateway
.
. Once you