How to create a new user in Open DS LDAP server for Sybase Unwired Platform

Below I will explain how to create a new user for Sybase Unwired Platform with different levels of privileges …

Pre-Requisites:

Please install JXplorer on the server. The software is available for download from http://jxplorer.org/

Start the SUP server.

Create a new user in the Open LDAP system.

1.       Start the JXplorer and click on File -> Connect.

2.       To connect to the LDAP server enter the following credentials and click on “OK” (Figure 1):

·         Host: IP Address or Server Name of server

·         Port: 10389

·         Level: User + Password

·         User DN: “cn = Directory Manager”

·         Password: secret

3.       Expand the users view in the left pane.

4.       Right Click on users and select New.

5.       In the “Set Entry Object Classes” screen select “person” from the “Selected Classes List” and enter the user id to be created in the “Enter RDN” textbox (Figure 2) as “uid=raia001”.

6.       Enter the following attributes (Figure 3) and click on “Submit” button:

·         Uid: user id being created (This will be populated from what was entered on the previous screen)

·         Cn: Name of the User

·         Sn : Name of the User

·         userPassword: Password for the user

7.       In the left pane expand the groups and select “SUP User”. In the right pane right click on “uniqueMember” and select “Add Another Value”. A new row is created for the “uniqueMember” and enter the value as “uid=<USERID>, ou=users, dc=example,dc=com”. Replace the <USERID> with the user that was created in the earlier step. (Figure 4). Click on “Submit” to save the changes.

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