ISPs and ASPs can delegate the administration of users to the companies they are hosting. Enterprise extranets can delegate administration of customer information and accounts in both the B2B and B2C marketplace. Corporate intranets can also delegate the administration of employee user information. Top- level Administrators have unrestricted access to data for all users in the entire organization. Organization Administrators can create groups and delegate user management to Help Desk Administrators and Group Administrators.
End users can make some changes to their own information in the directory.
An administrator's role determines the scope of changes he or she can make. You can add additional administrative roles, remove the existing administrative roles, and change the permissions for an administrative role by customizing iPlanet Delegated Administrator. In this way, you can tailor Delegated Administrator to your organizational structure and the scope of user management you want to delegate to each administrator. Further, using instructions in the Deployment and Customization Guide , you can customize iPlanet Delegated Administrator to modify the UI look and feel, and to extend back-end functionality. Modify the existing HTML templates or add new HTML templates to allow the management of additional directory attributes or services.