Installation guide

Configuration Decisions
Chapter 1 Preparing for a Directory Server Installation 15
• Directory Manager DN and password.
The D irectory Manager DN is the special directory entry to which access
control does not apply. Think of the directory manager as your directory’s
superuser. (In former releases of Directory Server, the Directory Manager DN
was known as the root DN).
The default Directory Manager DN is
cn=Directory Manager.Becausethe
Directory Manager D N is a special entry, the Directory Manager DN does not
have to conform to any suffix configured for your Directory Server. Therefore,
you must not manually create an actual Directory Server entry that has the
same DN as the directory manager DN.
The Directory Manager password must be at least 8 characters long, and i s
limited to ASCII letters, digits, and symbols.
• Configuration Directory Administrator ID and password.
The configuration directory administrator is the person responsible for
managing all the Netscape servers accessible through Netscape Console. If you
log in with this user ID, then you can a dminister any Netscap e server that you
can see in the server topology area of Netscape Console.
For security, the configuration directory administrator should not be the same
as the d irectory m anager. The default configuration directory administrator ID
is
admin.
• Administration Server User and password.
You are prompted for this only during custom installations. The
Administration Server user is the special user that has all privileges for the
local Administration Server. Authentication as this person allows you to
administer all the Netscape servers stored in the local server root.
Administration Server u ser ID and password is used only when the Directory
Server is down and you are unable to log in as the configuration directory
administrator. The e xistence of this user ID means that you can access
Administration Server and perform disaster recovery activities s uch as starting
Directory Server, reading log files, and so forth.
Normally, Administration Server user and password should be identical to the
configuration directory administrator ID and password.