Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Directory Services Tree
Importing User Information into the NDS Database
Mailing label information
Name
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Department
Note how the Name field corresponds to a student ID number. When the ID
number is imported into NDS, it will become the user’s login name—which
is the User object name.
An alternative to managing numbers is to create a field of unique login
names in your data file.
Data File Edited to Update User Objects
Suppose that later you wanted to update User object information and add
properties that were not imported when the users were created.
For example, if you wanted to delete values from the “Middle initial” field,
import new values from the “Year,” “Major,” and “Grade point average”
fields, and change the separator used for all user information after Adam
Jones, you would edit the data file as shown here:
“Jones”,“Adam”,“#DEL”,“111 South 8th East”,“Salt Lake
City”,“Utah”,“84007”,“2345”,“Sophomore”,“Environmental
Engineering”,“2.8”,“Engineering Sciences”
!Separator=/
“Smith”/“John”/“#DEL”/“222 North Cerillos”/“Los Angeles”/“California”/
“96000”/“2875”/“Senior”/“Accounting”/“3.0”/“Business Administration”
NOTE: Import control parameters are initially set in the control file, but can be included in
the data file. If you include control parameters in the data file, each parameter should
be preceded by an exclamation point (!).
For example, to place the users in the Engineering.Acme context, and to
change the separator to a semicolon (;), you would add the following lines to
the data file: