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Caution
The Directory Server identifier must not contain a period. For example, example.server.com is
not a valid server identifier name.
13. For the configuration directory administrator ID and password, enter the name and password as
whom you will log in when you want to authenticate to the Console with full privileges.
14. For a directory suffix, enter a distinguished name (DN) meaningful to your enterprise.
This string is used to form the name of all your organization’s directory entries. Therefore, pick
a name that is representative of your organization. It is recommended that you pick a suffix that
corresponds to your Internet DNS name. Avoid space characters in the suffix.
For example, if your organization uses the DNS name
example.com
, then enter
dc=example,dc=com
here.
15. For the Directory Manager DN, enter the DN that you will use when managing the contents of
your directory with unlimited privileges.
Note
Any DN must be entered in the UTF-8 character set encoding. Older encodings such as ISO-
8859-1 are not supported.
In former releases of Directory Server, the Directory Manager was known as the root DN . This
is the entry that you use to bind to the directory when you want access control to be ignored.
This DN can be short and does not have to conform to any suffix configured for your directory.
However, it should not correspond to an actual entry stored in your directory.
For the Directory Manager password, enter a value that is at least 8 characters long.
16. For Administration Domain, enter the domain to which you want this server to belong.
The name you enter should be a unique string that is descriptive of the organization
responsible for administering the domain. For information on administration domains, refer to
Section 1.2.8 Determining the Administration Domain .
17. For the administration port number, enter a value that is not in use (an available port number
will be randomly generated as the default). Be sure to record this value.
18. For the user as whom you want to run Administration Server, enter root. This is the default.
You have to run this as root if your port number is below 1024; otherwise, you can run this as a
regular user.
The server is then unpackaged, minimally configured, and started. You are told on what host
and port number Administration Server is listening.
The server is configured to use the following suffixes:
•
The suffix that you configured.
• o=NetscapeRoot
Do not modify the contents of the directory under the
o=NetscapeRoot
suffix. Either create
data under the first suffix or create a new suffix to be used for this purpose. For details on how to
create new suffixes for your Directory Server, see the Red Hat Directory Server Administration
Guide .