Netscape NETSCAPE DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR, Administrator'S Manual

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Inactivating Users and Roles
Chapter 7 User Account Management 273
• Activating User and Roles Using the Command Line
Inactivating User and Roles Using the Console
The following procedure describes inactivating a user or a role using the console:
1.
In the Directory Server Console, select the Directory tab.
2.
Browse the navigation tree in the left navigation pane and double-click the user
or role you want to inactivate.
The Edit Entry dialog box appears.
You can also select Inactivate from the Object menu as a short cut.
3.
Click Account in the left pane. The right pane states that the role or user is
inactivated. Click Activate to activate the user or role.
4.
Click OK to close the dialog box and save your changes.
Once inactivated, you can view the state of the object by selecting Inactivation
State from the View menu. The icon of the object then appears in the right pane
of the console with a red slash through it.
Inactivating User and Roles Using the Command
Line
To inactivate a user account, use the
ns-inactivate.pl
script. The following
example describes using the
ns-inactivate.pl
script to inactivate Joe Frasier’s
user account:
ns-inactivate.pl -D "Directory Manager" -w secretpwd -p 389
-h example.com -I "uid=jfrasier,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
The following table describes the
ns-inactivate.pl
options used in the example:
CAUTION You cannot inactivate the root entry (the entry corresponding to the
root or sub suffix) on a database. For more information on creating
the entry for a root or sub suffix, refer to Chapter 2, “Creating
Directory Entries” for more information. For more information on
creating root and sub suffixes, refer to Chapter 3, “Configuring
Directory Databases”.