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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 Red Hat servers stored in
the local server root.
Administration Server user 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
existence of this user ID means that you can access Administration Server and perform
disaster recovery activities such 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.
Determining Your Directory Suffix
A directory suffix is the directory entry that represents the first entry in a directory tree. You
will need at least one directory suffix for the tree that will contain your enterprise's data. It
is common practice to select a directory suffix that corresponds to the DNS host name used
by your enterprise. For example, if your organization uses the DNS name example.com,
then select a suffix of
dc=example,dc=com
.
For the purposes of CS, this suffix usually does not matter, unless you plan to store user
information in this configuration directory. Normally you will not store users in this
configuration directory. You only use this configuration directory to store configuration
settings for the Administration Server that allow you to use Red Hat Console to manage CS.
For more information on planning the suffixes for your directory service, see the Red Hat
Directory Server Deployment Guide.
Summary of Contents for CERTIFICATE 7.1 ADMINISTRATOR
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