You must give explicit rights to users with graded authentication. Inherited rights do not work. For example, an administrator’s Supervisor right is defined at the [Root] container. Rights for the administrator are not defined in the Volume object. If the administrator changes the volume’s security label from Logged In to any other security label, the administrator cannot get the appropriate rights. The administrator must assign explicit rights to the volume, directories, or files in the volume.

If Universal Password is enabled and you attempt to set the simple password, a -1697 error message is returned.

eDirectory 8.7.3 utilities like DSBackup (ndsbackup), DSRepair (ndsrepair), and DSMerge (ndsmerge) work with NDS passwords alone but do not work with NMAS Simple password. eDirectory 8.8 uses Universal Password.

For information on Universal Password, see the Novell Password Management 3.3.2 Administration Guide.

Clicking OK or switching between tabs when creating or renaming a label always creates or renames the label even if you respond No to the Save Changes made for Labels? prompt. You must click the Cancel button to cancel any changes. After a label is created, it cannot be deleted. However, you can rename it to an unused name, such as Unused_x.

When you use XDAS auditing for NMAS, the DN format of the following events is not generated in the LDAP notation.