C.1 LUM Automation

The Linux and UNIX Settings driver can automate enabling OES users for 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 GCV named Add Users to LUM-Enabled Group to No.

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

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