What You ve Learned

What You've Learned

• Directory services allow multiple processes to access common system data, such as user information.

• A centralized data store allows for easier maintenance by a system administrator.

• With data stored on a network server, multiple computers can access the same data.

• With proper configuration, the same user account can be used to log in on multiple computers on the network; the user is no longer tied to a single computer.

• User records, the most frequently used record type, stores information to uniquely identify a user. Group records define one or more users that should share certain system permissions.

References

Administration Guides

"Mac OS X Server Getting Started": http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Getting_Started_v10.4.pdf

"Upgrading and Migrating to Mac OS X Server v10.4 Tiger": http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Migration_v10.4.pdf

"Open Directory Administration": http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Open_Directory_v10.4.pdf

"User Management": http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/User_Management_Admin_v10.4.pdf

"Mac OS X Server Command-Line Administration": http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Command_Line_v10.4.pdf

Books

Carter, Gerald. LDAP System Administration (O'Reilly, 2003).

URLs

Managing Users and groups on FreeBSD: http://www.perlcode.org/tutorials/sysadmin/managing_users.pod