Advantages of managing NetWare users from iSeries

Managing NetWare users from iSeries™ gives you these advantages:

• Central user ID administration

  You can manage enrollment of iSeries and PC users on NetWare from a single iSeries. You can add, remove, or change users or groups on selected NDS trees by making changes from iSeries. You can also display information on iSeries that shows which users are enrolled and on which NDS trees.

• Automatic extension of iSeries user profile attributes

  If a password for an iSeries user profile changes, that change automatically spreads to the corresponding user object on all of the NDS trees that you specify. This function is especially helpful when managing users who are defined on several NetWare servers.

  Other user profile attributes extended to NetWare include the text field, profile login script, password expiration interval and expiration date, and login expiration date.

• Automatic creation of NetWare group and user objects

  You can automatically create NetWare objects by enrolling iSeries users and groups on NetWare. When you enroll a group, you can also enroll all of its members. The new NetWare group and user objects are created with the same name as their iSeries profiles.

• Automatic creation of NetWare authentication entries

  When you enroll users on NetWare, iSeries automatically creates an authentication entry associated with the users' iSeries profile to allow easy access to NetWare services. iSeries uses the authentication entry to verify authorization to NetWare when starting a connection to a NetWare server.