Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 74

Installation Overview
• Directory Manager DN and password.
The Directory Manager DN is the special directory entry to which access
control does not apply. Think of the directory manager as your directory's
superuser.
The default Directory Manager DN is
Directory Manager DN is a special entry, the Directory Manager DN does not
have to conform to any suffix configured for your Directory Server. Therefore,
you must not manually create an actual Directory Server entry that has the
same DN as the directory manager DN.
• Configuration Directory Administrator ID and password.
The configuration directory administrator is the person responsible for
managing all the Netscape servers accessible through Netscape Console. If you
log in with this user ID, then you can administer any Netscape server that you
can see in the server topology area of Netscape Console.
For security, the configuration directory administrator should not be the same
as the directory manager. The default configuration directory administrator ID
is
Console.
• Administration Server User and password.
You are prompted for this only during custom installations. The
Administration Server user is the special user that has all privileges for the
local Administration Server. Authentication as this person allows you to
administer all the Netscape servers stored in the local server root.
Administration Server user ID and password is used only when the Directory
Server is down and you are unable to log in as the configuration directory
administrator. The existence of this user ID means that you can access
Administration Server and perform disaster recovery activities such as starting
Directory Server, reading log files, and so forth.
Normally, Administration Server user and password should be identical to the
configuration directory administrator ID and password.
Determining Your Directory Suffix
A directory suffix is the directory entry that represents the first entry in a directory
tree. You will need at least one directory suffix for the tree that will contain your
enterprise's data. It is common practice to select a directory suffix that corresponds
to the DNS host name used by your enterprise. For example, if your organization
uses the DNS name example.com, then select a suffix of
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. This is the user ID and password you will use to log into Netscape
admin
cn=Directory Manager
dc=example,dc=com
. Because the
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