Add portal administrators to the Domino Directory

 

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Create a new user to act as the portal administrator if...

  • You do not have a user to administer the portal

  • You do not have an existing LDAP directory

  • You do have an existing LDAP directory but the portal administrative user does not exist in the directory

Perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the People view of the Domino Directory and, from the action bar, click Add Person.

  2. In the New Person form, enter the following values in the fields shown:

    Last Name wpsbind
    User name wpsbind/<DominoDomain>
    wpsbind
    Short name/UserID wpsbind
    Internet password wpsbind

    You enter two values in the User name field, where the first value includes the Lotus Domino Domain.

  3. Click Save and Close to save the new person record for wpsbind and return to the People view of the Domino Directory.

  4. From the action bar, click Add Person and complete the New Person form to add the portal administrator ID as follows:

    Last name wpsadmin
    User name wpsadmin/<DominoDomain>
    wpsadmin
    Short name/UserID wpsadmin
    Internet password wpsadmin_password

    You enter two values in the User Name field, where the first value includes the Lotus Domino Domain.

  5. Click Save and Close to save the new person record for the new administrative user and return to the People view of the Domino Directory.

  6. Navigate to the Groups view of the Domino Directory and, from the action bar, click Add Group.

  7. In the New Group form, on the Basics tab, enter the following values in the fields shown to create the portal administrators group wpsadmins and add the user wpsbind, and the portal administrative user. We can add additional users to administer the portal, if desired.

    Group name wpsadmins
    Group type Multi-purpose
    Members wpsbind
    wpsadmin

  8. Click Save and Close to save the wpsadmins group.

See Updating the Access Control List of the Domino Directory to assign the necessary permissions to the new administrative group and users.

 

Parent Topic

Set up LDAP

 

Related tasks

Set a Domino LDAP server to allow anonymous access