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Using Typical Installation
38 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • May 2002
24. For a directory suffi x, en ter a distinguished name (DN) meaningful to your
enterprise.
This string is used to form the name of all your organization’s directory entries.
Therefore, pick a name that is representative of your organization. It is
recommended that you pick a su ffix that corresponds to your internet DNS
name.Avoidspacecharactersinthesuffix.
For example, if your organization uses the DNS name
example.com,thenenter
dc=example,dc=com here.
25. For DirectoryManagerDN, enter the DN that you willuse when managing the
contents of your directory with unlimited privileges.
In former releases o f Directory Server, the Directory Manager was known as
the root DN. This is the entry that you bind to the directory as w hen you want
access control to be ignored. This DN can be short and does not have to
conform to any suffix configured for your directory. However, it should not
correspond to an actual entry stored in your directory.
26. For the Directory Manager password, enter a value that is at least 8 characters
long.
27. For Administration Domain, enter the domain that you want this server to
belong to.
The name you enter should be a unique string that is descriptive of the
organization responsible for administering the domain. For information on
administration domains, see “Determining the Administration Domain,” on
page 18.
28. For the administration port number, enter a value that is not in use. Be sure to
record this value.
29. For the user you want to run Administration Server as, enter root.Thisisthe
default.
For information on why y ou should run Administration Server as root, see
“Deciding the User and Group for Your Netscape Servers (UNIX only),” on
page 14.
The server is then unpackaged, mini mally configured, and started. You are told
what host and port number Administration Server is listening on.
NOTE
Any DN must be entered in the UTF-8 character set encoding. Older
encodings such as ISO-8859-1 are not supported.