Activating User And Roles Using The Command Line - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Inactivating Users and Roles
Browse the navigation tree in the left navigation pane and double-click the
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user or role you want to activate.
The Edit Entry dialog box appears.
You can also select Activate from the Object menu as a short cut.
Click Account in the left pane. The right pane states that the role or user is
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activated. Click Activate to activate the user or role.
If the user or role is a member of another inactivated role, the console
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displays an option for viewing the inactivated roles. Click Show Inactivated
Roles to view the list of roles to which the user or role belongs.
Click OK when you are finished.
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Once reactivated, you can view the state of the object by selecting
Inactivation State from the View menu. The icon of the role or user in the
right pane of the console appears as normal. The red slash through the icon
indicating it was inactive disappears.
Activating User and Roles Using the
Command Line
To activate a user account, use the
example describes using the
user account:
ns-activate.pl -D "Directory Manager" -w secretpwd -p 389
-h example.com -I "uid=jfrasier,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
The following table describes the
example:
Option Name
-D
-w
-p
-h
-I
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ns-activate.pl
ns-activate.pl
ns-inactivate.pl
Description
The DN of the directory administrator.
The password of the directory administrator.
Port used by the server.
Name of the server on which the directory resides.
DN of the user account or role you want to activate.
script. The following
script to activate Joe Frasier's
options used in the