Directory Mate 2003 Help

Modifying Object Attributes: Table of Contents

- Modifying User Attributes
- Enabling and Disabling User Accounts
- Modifying Group Attributes
- Modifying Group Membership

 

Modifying User Attributes

 

To modify User attributes, export the list of users you want and modify the appropriate columns.  For a complete list of user attributes that you can modify, please refer to the User Object Attributes help page.

 

Enabling and Disabling User Accounts

 

Users accounts can be enabled and disabled by specifying the column "accountDisabled" in your import file.  This column will only be used when using the "Modify" import.  It is ignored when using the "Create" import because the import wizard already provides you with options for accounts when creating new users.

 

To disable an account, use the value "Yes".  To enable an account, use the value "No".  Any other values used in this column will generate an error.

 

Modifying Group Attributes

 

To modify Group attributes, export the list of groups you want and modify the appropriate columns.  For a complete list of group attributes that you can modify, please refer to the Group Object Attributes help page.

 

Modifying Group Membership

 

To change the groups that users (or other types of objects) belong to, specify the "memberOf" column in your import file during a "Create" or "Modify" operation.  The full distinguished names of the groups you want the user to belong to should be specified with a "%" character inbetween each group.  Example:  "CN=Group1,CN=Users,DC=MADSolutions,DC=com%CN=Acct Group,OU=Accounting,DC=MADSolutions,DC=com".  You can also the objectGUID value of groups to identify them.  Example to identify two groups by their objectGUID with a "%" character to separate them: "4e1adcb77db96f47a282e1fb25d196be%6fbc74ba27697a46867c7836fb427dfc".

 

If you specify the option "Append import file values to the existing values in multi-valued fields" in the import wizard, then the object will be added to the groups you specified and not removed from any groups that they already belong to.

 

If you specify the option "Overwrite values in multi-valued fields with the import file values" in the import wizard, then the object will be added to the groups you specified and removed from any groups that they already belong to.  A special exception to this is the "Domain Users" group.  An object will not be removed from that group if it already belongs to it by using the "Overwrite" option.  It is not possible to remove objects from the "Domain Users" group with Directory Mate.