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Querying the Data Base |
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This Action is the most simple one and needs only a search attribute to
be selected and entered, such as Common Name or groups
and submit pressed. Wild cards in their most simple form (star matches
everything) work.
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The course to take for adding an entry is to select the Rootdn
(the authority to perform the changes),
enter its Rootpw, edit all appropriate values and select
Add New Entry instead of Query Data Base.
When you're done editing, press the
enter button to submit the modify request.
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The course to take for adding an entry is to select the Rootdn
(the authority to perform the changes),
enter its Rootpw, select the appropriate Common Name
(or a different unique attribute), and
select Delete Entry instead of Query Data Base.
When you're done editing, press the
enter button to submit the modify request.
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This is done in a similar way to Querying or deleting, but since for the
form you need no privileges, it will suffice to enter a unique attribute,
such as Common Name or uid.
Select Modify Entry instead of Query Data Base
and press the
enter button to submit the modify request.
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Bind Attributes |
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- Server:
- Usually, you will not have to set the server as the default,
will work well for local
modifications. If, however, the default server should ever be changed,
the necessity of accessing a backup server should arise or you simply
want to access a different server from ours, you're welcome to access it
setting this variable.
- Base DN:
- The base part of the LDAP entity you want to modify. Pretty standard,
this will usually be "o=OeH Uni Wien, c=AT", but as with
the server you always have the possibility of accessing a different
server - and then maybe one day we'll install suborganisations (attribute
uo), which will anticipitatively change everything.
- Rootdn:
- The DN (Distinguished Name, that's what LDAP addresses are called) of
the entity wishing to modify an entry. Note that the Rootdn need not
be the same as the entity to be modified - in particular, various
attributes like groups or sub organisation cannot even be modified
by the entity itself!
- Rootpw:
- The userPassword (or rootpw) of the entity modifying the entry. If you
modify your own entry, enter your password here, generally you'll have
to enter the password of the Rootdn.
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Mandatory Attributes |
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- cn:
- Common Name of the Entity to be modified. This attribute
is used for the construction of the DN (Distinguished Name), so
modification will make successful operation impossible. Change only if
you know exactly what you are doing.
Further CN attributes can appear (and new ones can be added),
though care should be taken regarding deletion of CNames.
- sn:
- Short Name of the entity
- uid:
- User IDentification of the entity.
- mail:
- RFC 822 internet email address- This Attribute has mostly
informational value to tell others where the entity prefers to receive
mail. In addition, a forward attribute exists, which will be used
by sendmail for determining where to forward emails directed to the entity.
- objectclass:
- Type of entity. Person and Organisation are widely used, attribute
values include sysadmin and luser.
- description
- feel free to tell us about yourself, stapo are craving
for learning more about you and your friends
- groups:
- Membership of groups determines your permission to read certain news
groups. If you believe you should belong to more groups, bang your head
to the wall, ask your doctor about it or contact us.
- office:
- Copy the whole address of your work place (Fak, StRV, ...)
and don't forget to set the office phon number and fax below. Hm, maybe
it's not that important ... never mind, some one might be interested
- attitude
- What's your attitude to computers and life in general? Never mind
if you don't know, don't ask, but you might want to learn more about
the BOFH.
- userPassword:
- Your password.
If you don't have one, you won't be able to change
your entry, though in theory LDAP should enforce the existence of a
non-null password.
The
password needs to be entered twice (for changing!) in order to
minimize the possibility of spelling errors. Hopefully we will soon
check for "easy" passwords so they are not too easily
guessable - whichever way, please choose a decent password! The security
of the system is based on it, so you should not make it too easy for
cracker jacks to get in.
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Compulsury Attributes |
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- Mail Address:
- see above
- Description:
- see above
- Mail-forward:
- Your main email address, where all emails should be forwarded.
This can naturally be used for mailbombing, although it might be
considered silly (you'll lose your account pretty soon). Mainly, this
attribute will be used by sendmail to forward your mails to a central
mail account, optionally we might choose not to store your mails
locally (hmpf, no you cannot enable this yourself - you would
just screw it up).
note: an autoreply feature is not currently implemented but might
eventually be if you bug me sufficiently (the again it might not
if you bug me sufficiently - YMMV)
- Groups:
- see above
- Office:
- see above
- Phone:
- Office Phone
- Fax:
- Number of a telephone line capable of receiving Facsimile
transmissions. Ideally you should be able to collect faxes there,
since otherwise it is probably quite pointless to stick it
in here in the first place, but tastes are known to differ
considerably.
- Attitude:
- see above
- Home Phone:
- Home Phone, where your home page can be reached
- Home Page:
- page linked to your home phone. You probably will not believe it,
but in USA people's homepages already talk to each other live!
Of course, no one understands them and many people put off this
extraordinary phenomenon as complete and utter nonsense invented by mad
computer scientists, but if you've made it that far in the
help form, either you are one yourself or you've really got far too little
to read otherwise.
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