Creating Groups - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.0 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Creating Groups

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For more information, see The Manage Users Page in the online help.
Creating Groups
A group is an object that describes a set of objects in an LDAP database. An
Enterprise Server group consists of users who share a common attribute. For
instance, the set of objects might be a number of employees who work in the
marketing division of your company. These employees might belong to a group
called Marketing.
There are two ways to define membership of a group: statically and dynamically.
Static groups enumerate their member objects explicitly. A static group is a CN and
contains
For static groups, the members do not share a common attribute except for the
CN=<Groupname>
Dynamic groups allow you to use a LDAP URL to define a set of rules that match
only for group members. For Dynamic Groups, the members do share a common
attribute or set of attributes that are defined in the
you need a group that contains all employees in Sales, and they are already in the
LDAP database under "
group with the following
ldap:///ou=Sales,o=example??sub?(uid=*)
This group would subsequently contain all objects that have an
tree below the "
For static
certificate if you use the
if the ACL uses the SSL method.
Once you create a new group, you can add users, or members, to it.
This section includes the following topics for creating groups:
• Static Groups
• Dynamic Groups
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and/or
uniqueMembers
attribute.
ou=Sales,o=example.com
memberurl
ou=Sales,o=example
and dynamic groups, members can share a common attribute from a
memberCertDescription
and/or
memberURLs memberCertDescriptions
memberURL
," you'd define a dynamic
:
" point; thus, all the Sales members.
. Note that these will only work
.
filter. For example, if
attribute in the
uid