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Begrepsliste
account: a user account (POSIX or generic user) in Cerebrum
account authentication: data needed to authenticate a
particular user throughout the system
account owner: person or group which holds the ownership
of an account
account type: describes the ownership of an non-personal
account (i.e. system account, software account, group account)
affilliation: the role a person possess within an organizational
unit
affiliation status code: more precise description of
a person's role (i.e. affiliation -> STUDENT, affiliation status code
-> within an organizational unit)
authoritative system: source system primarily used to
update any particular type of data in Cerebrum
changelog: system for keeping track of modifications
to the database and making other systems detected changes at sync-time
core: Cerebrum core API (see cerebrum_core)
disk: a disk defined on a machine registered in Cerebrum
entity: an account (user), organizational unit, person
or a group registered in Cerebrum (abstract concept allowing easy administration
within Cerebrum)
entity id: an id assigned to each entity that exists
in Cerebrum
email domain: the domain assigned to each e-mail address
in Cerebrum (the part of the address after the "@")
export id: an internal id assigned to each entity used
to ease the export of Cerebrum-specific data to other systems
external id: unique id assigned to each person registered
in Cerebrum (e.g. national sosial security number)
group: a collection of users or machines usually used
to assign various permissions in Cerebrum or throughout the system
group visibility:
home: home directory of a user registered in Cerebrum
uid: the numeric user ID value space in UNIX
host: a machine registered in Cerebrum
ou: Organizational Unit
ou perspective: decides which ou structure is to be used
spread: decides in which parts of the system within the
organization an entity should be recognized
quarantine: limitations imposed on entities in Cerebrum
quota: the resources available to a user in terms of
storage (home directory or email) or printing (sheets of paper available
per week)
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