Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 64

To provide effective security, a password should be between five and eight characters
long. The maximum length for a password is 128 characters. However, if no special
security modules are loaded, only the first eight characters are used to discern the
password. Passwords are case-sensitive. Special characters like umlauts are not allowed.
Other special characters (7-bit ASCII) and the digits 0 to 9 are allowed.
Two additional options are available for local users:
Receive System Messages via E-Mail
Checking this box sends the user messages created by the system services. These
are usually only sent to root, the system administrator. This option is useful for
the most frequently used account, because it is highly recommended to log in as
root only in special cases.
Automatic Login
This option is only available if KDE is used as the default desktop. It automatically
logs the current user into the system when it starts. This is mainly useful if the
computer is operated by only one user. For automatic login to work, the option
must be explicitly enabled.
WARNING: Automatic Login
With the automatic login enabled, the system boots straight into your desktop
with no authentication at all. If you store sensitive data on your system, you
should not enable this option if the computer can also be accessed by others.
Click User Management to create more than one user. Refer to
Management"
Configuring the Host as an LDAP Client
To implement user administration by LDAP, configure an LDAP client in the next step.
This section only describes the configuration of the client side. Configuration of an
LDAP server is described in
Click Use LDAP to enable the use of LDAP. Select Use LDAP but Disable Logins in-
stead if you want to use LDAP for authentication, but do not want other users to log in
to this client. Enter the IP address of the LDAP server to use and the LDAP base DN
to select the search base on the LDAP server. To retrieve the base DN automatically,
click Fetch DN. YaST then checks for any LDAP database on the specified server ad-
64 Installation and Administration
(page 177) for more information about user management.
Chapter 37, LDAP—A Directory Service
Section 7.9.1, "User
(page 681).