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Working With Read-Only User Accounts
You can use Workgroup Manager to review information for user accounts stored in read-only
directory domains. Read-only directory domains include LDAPv2 domains, LDAPv3 domains
not configured for write access, and BSD configuration files.
To work with a read-only user account:
1 Ensure that the directory services of the Mac OS X Server you are using has been configured
to access the directory domain in which the account resides. See Chapter 2, “Directory
Services,” for information about using Directory Access to configure server connections and
Appendix A, “Data Requirements of Mac OS X Directory Services,” for information about the
user account elements that need to be mapped.
2 In Workgroup Manager, click the Accounts button.
3 Use the At pop-up menu to open the directory domain in which the user’s account resides.
4 Use the tabs provided to review the user’s account settings. See “Working With Basic Settings
for Users” on page 136 through “Working With Print Settings for Users” on page 149 for
details.
Working With Basic Settings for Users
Basic settings are a collection of attributes that must be defined for all users.
In Workgroup Manager, use the Basic tab in the user account window to work with basic
settings.
Defining User Names
The user name is the full name for a user. Sometimes the user name is referred to as the
“long name” or the “real” name. Users can log in using the user name or a short name
associated with their accounts.
Long user names are case sensitive in the login window; so if an account has the user name
Mary Smith, login fails if MAry Smith is entered in the login window. However, user names
are not case sensitive when used to authenticate a user for file server access or to log in from
Macintosh Manager 8 and 9 clients.
A long user name can contain no more than 255 bytes. Since long user names support
various character sets, the maximum number of characters for long user names can range
from 255 Roman characters to as few as 85 characters (for character sets in which characters
occupy up to 3 bytes).
For example, Dr. Arnold T. Smith.
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