Managing user templates

A user template contains default information that you can apply to User objects to give them default property values.

Use these guidelines as you create user templates:

• You can create a user template in an Organization or Organizational Unit object, either when you create the container object or later on.

• When you create a User object, you are prompted to use the defaults in the user template. If you do, the property values you entered in the user template, such as login time restrictions, password restrictions, and so on, are copied into the User object's properties.

• The user template is actually a User object named USER_TEMPLATE. You enter information in this User object just as you would for any other User object. However, not all properties of a User object can be copied from a user template.

• You can copy information from the parent container's user template. For example, if you create a user template in SALES.O=ACME, you are prompted to copy the user template from ACME, if one exists; thus, you avoid having to re-enter similar information for lower-level containers.

• User template information is taken from the nearest parent container. If the container object in which you create a User object does not have a user template, you can apply the parent container's user template to the User object.

• Changing values in a user template does not change values in existing User objects. The changes apply only to User objects created after changing the user template values.

• To update information for existing users, you must enter the changes for each User object.

• You cannot use a user template to grant NDS or filesystem rights.

Creating and editing user templates with NetWare Administrator

The following list describes the prerequisites:

• A 386 or later workstation and NetWare Administrator

• The Create object right to the object that will contain the user template

1. From the Windows Program Manager or the OS/2 desktop, click on the ``NetWare Administrator'' icon.

2. Select the object that will contain the new user template.

   For information on moving around in the browser and selecting objects, press <F1>.

   Only Organization and Organizational Unit objects can contain User objects.

3. From the Object menu, select User Defaults.

4. If you want the new user template to inherit the properties from the parent container's user template, choose ``Yes''. If not, choose ``No.''

   If there is no parent container, this prompt does not appear. Continue with Step 5.

   If you choose ``Yes'', a USER_TEMPLATE User object is created and the first page of defaults, ``Identification'', appears with the same information that is in the parent container's user template.

   If you choose ``No,'' a USER_TEMPLATE User object is created and the first page of defaults, ``Identification'', appears.

5. (Optional) On the ``Identification'' page, enter or change the information that you want to apply to new User objects.

   For example, the location for all User objects to which you will apply the template might be New York. You would type New York in the ``Location'' field.

6. Select other USER_TEMPLATE pages as needed and enter the template information.

7. To save the user template and return to the browser, choose OK.

Creating and editing user templates with NETADMIN

The following list describes the prerequisites:

• A workstation running DOS 3.30 or later and NETADMIN

• The Create object right to the object that will contain the user template

1. At the DOS prompt, type
   
   NETADMIN

   For information on moving around in NETADMIN and selecting objects, press <F1> after starting the utility.

2. From the NetAdmin Options menu, select Manage Objects.

3. Browse the Directory tree to find and select the container object in which you want to add a new container object.

   The objects in the selected container are listed.

   To see if you are in the right context, look at the title bar on the screen. Press <F1> for help.

4. Press <Ins>.

5. From the ``Select an Object Class'' screen, select the container type that you want to create.

   If the container object class you want to create does not appear, you cannot create that object in the selected container. Press <Esc> to return to the browser, and then select a different container type.

6. Type the new container object name and press <Enter>.

7. If you want to create a user template to be applied to new User objects created in this container, type ``Y'' and press <Enter>.

   You are not prompted to create a user template if you are creating a Country container object.

8. Choose ``View or Edit Properties of This Object''.

9. Choose ``Edit Template User''.

   The ``View or Edit User'' screen appears.

10. Enter or change the values of the user template as needed.

    The help line at the bottom of the screen gives information on each option as you highlight it.

    For more information, press <F1>.

11. To save the information, press <F10>.

12. To exit, press <Esc> until you return to the NetAdmin Options menu.