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Changing the Superuser Settings
70 Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator’s Guide
Changing the Superuser Settings
You can configure superuser access for your Enterprise Administration Server.
These settings affect only the superuser account. That is, if your Enterprise
Administration Server uses distributed administration, you need to set up
additional access controls for the administrators you allow.
Warning
If you use Netscape Directory Server to manage users and groups, you need to
update the superuser entry in the directory
before you change the superuser
username or password. If you don’t update the directory first, you won’t be
able to access the Users & Groups forms in Enterprise Administration Server. To
fix this, you’ll need to either access Enterprise Administration Server with an
administrator account that does have access to the directory, or you’ll need to
update the directory using the Netscape Directory Server’s Netscape Console or
configuration files.
To change the superuser settings for Enterprise Administration Server, perform
the following steps:
1.
Access the Enterprise Administration Server and choose the Preferences tab.
2.
Click the Superuser Access Control link.
3.
Make the desired changes and click OK.
For more information, see “The Superuser Access Control Page,” in the online
help.
Note
You can change the Enterprise Administration Server user from root to another
user on the operating system to enable multiple users (belonging to the group)
to edit/manage the configuration files. However, note that while on UNIX
platforms, the installer can give “rw” (read/write) permissions to a group for the
configuration files, on Windows NT platforms, the user must belong to the
“Administrators” group.
The superuser’s username and password are kept in a file called
server_root /admin-serv/config/admpw
. If you forget the username,
you can view this file to obtain the actual name; however, note that the
password is encrypted and unreadable. The file has the format
username:password
.