NetWare Directory Services

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Glossary
It can be used for users who are not
located under the same container in the
Directory tree or who are a subset of
users in the same container.
property A characteristic of a NetWare
Directory Services object such as name,
volume, login name, password
restrictions, group membership, etc.
Some properties can contain multiple
values, such as multiple telephone
numbers.
See also “object”.
property rights Rights that apply to the
properties of a NetWare Directory
Services object.
protocol Convention or rule used by a
program or operating system to
communicate between multiple
endpoints.
PUBLIC directory A directory on
SYS where NetWare utilities and their
related files are copied to during
installation.
[PUBLIC] trustee A special trustee
that can be added to any object,
directory, or file. Rights granted to
[PUBLIC] are effective for any object in
NDS that does not have other effective
rights.
Read property right (R) The right to
read the values of an object’s properties,
assigned on a per property basis.
read-only replica A type of replica that
can be read but not written to by any
user.
read/write replica A type of replica
that can be read and written to by any
user. However, it cannot be used for
partition operations such as create, join,
delete, and rebuild.
Reference time server A time source
server that provides a time to which all
other time servers and clients
synchronize.
See also “time synchronization”.
Relative Distinguished Name (RDN)
The context, or path, from an object to
another object of the Directory tree.
See also “Distinguished Name”.
Rename object right (R) Allows you
to change the name of the object. This
changes the value of the naming
property. Only the last part of the
complete name can be changed with this
right.
For example, if you have the Rename
object right on a Printer object, you can
rename that Printer object so that its
complete name changes from
CN=HR_Printer.OU=Personnel.O=Nov
ell to
CN=Personnel_Printer.OU=Personnel.
O=Novell.
replica A copy of a NetWare Directory
Services database partition’s
information. An unlimited number of
replicas can be created for each partition,