Granting Self-Administration Rights to eGuide Users
Novell Cool Solutions: Trench
By Hamish Speirs
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Posted: 24 Mar 2003 |
The Problem:
NetWare 6, eGuide 2.1, eDirectory 8.6.2.
Our common population of users can not modify attributes in eGuide, they get the
message "One or more attributes failed to update".
However, users with admin rights have no problem making these changes. How do I grant everyone self-administration rights?
The Solution:
If you have a pure eDirectory 8.7 tree you can do it using the "self
administration" role - check the documentation for instructions.
Otherwise you have to give each of the individual users rights to the specific attributes you want them to be able to edit. I did this using an LDIF file that was imported with ICE - in so doing, I was able to update 4,000 users in a couple of minutes.
Here's the format for the LDIF file:
version: 1 dn: cn=aaaatest,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG changetype: modify add: ACL ACL: 7#entry#cn=aaaatest,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#mail ACL: 7#entry#cn=aaaatest,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#telephoneNumber ACL: 7#entry#cn=aaaatest,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#title ACL: 7#entry#cn=aaaatest,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#ou dn: cn=auser,ou=HQ,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG changetype: modify add: ACL ACL: 7#entry#cn=auser,ou=HQ,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#mail ACL: 7#entry#cn=auser,ou=HQ,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#telephoneNumber ACL: 7#entry#cn=auser,ou=HQ,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#title ACL: 7#entry#cn=auser,ou=HQ,ou=HOME,o=SOMEORG#ou
You can e-mail Hamish with questions about his procedure at hamish@TAKETHISOUTspeirs.mine.nu
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