Administering user accounts

Specifying a NetWare login ID

The NetWare^® login ID/UNIX login ID pair for a particular user can be used in the following ways:

The system specifies the NetWare login ID for a user automatically whenever that user needs to authenticate to NetWare services located on the same SCO system. This includes:
- logging in to the NetWare Server for SCO
- using printers defined on the NetWare Print Server for SCO
- logging into NetWare Directory Services (NDS) for SCO
Files created by the NetWare login ID on NetWare Server volumes defined on your SCO system will be owned by the associated SCO system user when the files are viewed from the SCO system side.
The NetWare Server administrator can specify that users cannot access NetWare Services on your system unless they have both a NetWare login ID and a UNIX system login ID.
The NetWare Server administrator can specify that UNIX system permissions (rather than NetWare effective rights) are to be checked before granting a NetWare user access to server files and other resources.

The NetWare login ID must be a completely specified NDS context identifier. Type names are optional. For example, these two IDs are equivalent:

   CN=user1.OU=sales.O=sco
   user1.sales.sco

The UNIX system only validates the format of the NDS context you provide, it does not perform an NDS lookup of the given NDS name. The name will be validated each time you attempt to access NetWare services running on your SCO system.

You can also use the UNIX system commands useradd(1M) and usermod(1M) to establish UNIX/NetWare user mappings, even if the NetWare Services package is not installed.