Supervising the Network

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Setting Up and Managing NetWare Directory Services Objects
Deleting Objects from the Directory Tree
Cautions When Deleting User Objects
You must be careful not to delete a trustee object that has the only trustee
assignment to a part of the Directory tree. If you do, you could cut off access
to that part of the Directory tree.
Be careful not to block all users’ rights to an object with an Inherited Rights
Filter, which would leave no one with access to part of the Directory tree.
Therefore, be aware of the following before you delete a User object:
• To avoid losing access to any object, check the “Rights to other objects” and
“Trustees of this object” attributes of the User object you want to delete.
To view these attributes, select the User object, and right-click once. Then select
the attribute you want to view from the available options.
If the User object you want to delete has the Supervisor right to another object,
transfer that Supervisor right to another User object before you delete the
original User object.
Or, give a User object in a higher container the Supervisor right to objects, and
then block other users from deleting those objects.
• Do not delete User ADMIN until you have given another User object the same
Supervisor right that ADMIN has.
• When you delete a User object, any security equivalences you have assigned to
other trustees are lost; also, the home directories and mail directories are not
deleted.
Cautions When Deleting Alias Objects
Be aware of the following before you delete an Alias object:
• If you delete an Alias object (which appears as the actual object it is pointing to),
you delete only the Alias object, not the object it points to.
• If you delete the object that an Alias object points to, the Alias object is also
deleted.