B.1 LUM Automation

The Linux and UNIX Settings driver can automate enabling OES users for Novell® Linux User Management (LUM). The driver performs the following steps:

  1. Assigns uidNumber from the NxSettings style sheet or the Linux/UNIX Config object.

  2. Adds Public rights to the following RFC 2307 attributes:

    Attribute

    Rights

    uidNumber

    Read

    gidNumber

    Read

    loginShell

    Read

    homeDirectory

    Read

    gecos

    Read

    Group Membership

    Read

    cn

    Compare

  3. Adds the user to a group enabled for LUM. (The group is chosen during driver import.)

  4. Sets the user’s gidNumber equal to the gidNumber of the LUM-enabled group.

  5. Adds the object class uamPosixUser to the user.

If you have a very large number of users, you might not want all users to be in a single static group. You can define a dynamic group as your LUM-enabled group.

To use a dynamic group as your LUM-enabled group:

  1. Define the dynamic group according to your needs.

  2. Set the global configuration value (GCV) named Add Users to LUM-Enabled Group to No.

    (The GCV named LUM-Enabled Group DN is not used in this case.)

    GCV values can be edited on the Driver Properties page. For more information about editing GCVs, see Section 4.0, Configuring the Linux and UNIX Settings Driver

For details about LUM, see the Linux User Management Technology Guide, which is available from the Novell® OES documentation Web site.