Managing groups of user objects

NetWare 4.1 allows you to manage User objects as a group, which is often more efficient than managing them individually. Six objects that can help you manage groups of User objects are described in the following list:

Organization

Allows you to assign trustee rights, login scripts, and user defaults to the User objects in the Organization.

Organizational Unit

Allows you to assign trustee rights, login scripts, and user defaults to the User objects in the Organizational Unit.

Group

Provides an efficient way to manage one object, the Group object, instead of many individual User objects.

Profile

Allows you to set up a specific work environment by using a common login script for groups of users who need similar work environments but who are not located in the same container object.

Organizational Role

Allows you to assign rights to a particular position and set of responsibilities rather than to a person. The person who occupies that position may change frequently, but the responsibilities of that position do not.

The difference between a Group object and an Organizational Role object is that a Group object usually has many members, whereas an Organizational Role object usually has only one or two members.

USER_TEMPLATE

Allows you to apply default property values to any user that you create in a container object. You can choose to apply the information in the user template when you create new User objects. The template is actually a User object named USER_TEMPLATE.