Managing Organizational Units; Finding Organizational Units - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Managing Organizational Units

ou=new organization, ou=parent organization, ...,o=base
organization, c=country
For example, if you create a new organization called Accounting within the
organizational unit West Coast, and your Base DN is o=Example Corporation,
US, then the new organization unit's DN is:
c=
ou=Accounting, ou=West Coast, o=Example Corporation, c=US
Managing Organizational Units
You edit and manage organizational units from the Organizational Unit Edit form.
This section describes the following tasks:
•

Finding Organizational Units

• Editing Organizational Unit Attributes
• Renaming Organizational Units
• Deleting Organizational Units
Finding Organizational Units
To find organizational units, perform the following steps:
Access the Enterprise Server Administration Server and choose the Users &
1.
Groups tab.
Click the Manage Organizational Units link.
2.
Type the name of the unit you want to find in the Find organizational unit
3.
field. You can enter any of the following in the search field:
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A name. Enter a full name or a partial name. All entries that equally match
the search string will be returned. If no such entries are found, all entries
that contain the search string will be found. If no such entries are found,
any entries that sounds like the search string are found.
An asterisk (*) to see all of the groups currently residing in your directory.
You can achieve this same result by simply leaving the field blank.
Any LDAP search filter. Any string that contains an equal sign (=) is
considered to be a search filter.