Adding the user entry to the global administration group

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You can use the instructions provided here to add the user entry to the global administration group.

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The following steps add cn=manager to the global administration group.
  1. In the navigation area, click Manage entries.
    Note: The Current® location field displays the current level of an entry in DIT tree in URL format. The suffix node in the DIT is displayed in the ldap://hostname:port format. The next level is displayed when you click a RDN® from the RDN column in the Manage entries table. This displays DIT at that level. To go up at any level in the displayed DIT tree, click the required URL in the Current location field.
  2. Select the radio button for cn=ibmpolicies and click Expand.
    Note: An expandable entry indicates that the entry has child entries. Expandable entries have a plus '+' sign next to them in the Expand column. You can click the ‘+’ sign next to the entry to view the child entries of the selected entry.
  3. Select the radio button for globalGroupName=GlobalAdminGroup and from the Select Action drop-down menu select Manage members and click Go.
  4. Specify the maximum number of members to return for a group. If you click Maximum number of members to return, you must enter a number. Otherwise, click Unlimited.
  5. To load the members into the table, click Load or select Load from Select Action and click Go.
  6. Type cn=manager,cn=ibmpolicies in the member field and click Add.
  7. A message is displayed: You have not loaded entries from the server. Only your changes will be displayed in the table. Do you want to continue?, click OK.
  8. cn=manager is displayed in the table. Click Ok. cn=manager is now a member of the global administration group.