I have come across a situation on a

[Thnoss]

I have come across a situation on a test server, the admin object has supervisor rights to the root, but only has browse and compare rights to itself. Is there a way to change the rights situation of the admin object wrt the rights it has to itself.

Thnoss

 

[Provogeek]

If your admin has supervisor rights to root you don't have anything to worry about. Rights flow down the tree. Just because you don't see the supervisor rights granted to the admin user for the admin user object does not mean he doesn't have admin rights to him self. You can grant them if you want, but it's pointless.

Brent Schmidt CNE,Network +
Senior Network Engineer
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[Thnoss]

Thanks Provogeek

Agreed this should be the case, but at some stage an admin trustee has been created for the admin object and the rights
of this trustee are browse and create. As you say the use of the admin is not effected as I still do gain s rights to the rest of the tree, but I want to backup this nds, and sms is required to acheive this. The only way I have found to use sms is to have the account I use to create the backup job, have s rights to the tree. I keep on getting an error that sms is not being used, and I am worried that this rights issue with admin is causing this problem.

Jason

 

[DrGreen26]

You know you might try something differet. IN DSREPAIR this is a switch you can use which will make a backup of NDS and then you can just backup the file as opposed to setting up an Admin equivalent object to backup NDS.

Works pretty nice...do a search on support.novell.com and search for DSREPAIR options or switches.

To restore NDS, you just restore this file and then use dsrepair to restore the backup. Works pretty fast too.

HTH

Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

With more than 10 years experience to share.