Adding a group membership

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You can add group memberships to control access or in application-specific uses such as a mailing list.

Procedure

  1. From the navigation area, expand Directory management.
  2. Click Manage entries.
  3. Expand the various subtrees and select the entry, such as cn=Bob Garcia,ou=austin,o=sample.
  4. From the Select Action drop-down menu, select Manage Memberships and click Go.
  5. On the Effective memberships tab, click Load to display the group memberships for Bob Garcia.
    Note: If you select a group entry, no effective group memberships can be displayed unless it is a member of a static or dynamic group. No membership is displayed, if the group entry is a member of a nested group only.
  6. Select the Static memberships tab.
  7. Select All suffixes or select a suffix to limit the groups that you want to view. For this example select cn=ibmpolicies.
  8. Click Browse groups to show all the static groups for the suffix.
  9. Select globalGroupName=GlobalAdminGroup,cn=ibmpolicies.
  10. Click Select.
    Note: You can also type globalGroupName=GlobalAdminGroup,cn=ibmpolicies in the Group DN field or click Browse to select it from the directory and click Add.
  11. If you did not click Load to display the memberships for the entry or, if there were no memberships for the entry, 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.
  12. globalGroupName=GlobalAdminGroup,cn=ibmpolicies is displayed in the table. Click Apply to save the change and continue adding more members or click OK to save the changes and return to the manage entries panel. cn=Bob Garcia,ou=austin,o=sample is now a member of the global administration group.
  13. If you click the Effective group members tab and click Refresh, globalGroupName=GlobalAdminGroup,cn=ibmpolicies is now displayed as a group membership for the entry cn=Bob Garcia,ou=austin,o=sample.