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122 Chapter 8 Working with Users and Groups
Matt Mitchell:/bin/tcsh
As these examples illustrate, you can use the prefix dsAttrTypeStandard: when
referring to an attribute, or you can omit the prefix. When you use Workgroup Manager
to export character-delimited files, it uses the prefix in the generated file.
When importing user passwords, you can insert the following in the list of attributes to
set the user’s password type to Open Directory:
dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthMethod
The method for setting an imported user’s password type to Open Directory requires
that the imported data actually have a password value. If the password value is missing
for a user, then the corresponding user record will be created with a password type of
Crypt or Shadow Password.
Then, insert the following in the formatted record (in this example, the user ‘s password
is “password”):
dsAuthMethodStandard\:dsAuthClearText:password
Note: In this example, the colon (:) is the field separator. Because there is a colon in the
description for this attribute, the escape character must be used to indicate that the
colon should not be treated as a delimiter. The backslash (\) is the escape character in
this example. If the field separator is anything other than the colon, the escape
character is not needed.
Using the StandardUserRecord Shorthand
When the first record in a character-delimited import file contains StandardUserRecord,
the following record description is assumed:
0x0A 0x5C 0x3A 0x2C dsRecTypeStandard:Users 7
RecordName Password UniqueID PrimaryGroupID
RealName NFSHomeDirectory UserShell
An example user account looks like this:
anne:Adl47E$:408:20:A. Johnson, M.D.:/Network/Servers/somemac/Homes/anne:/
bin/csh
Using the StandardGroupRecord Shorthand
When the first record in a character-delimited import file contains
StandardGroupRecord, the following record description is assumed:
0x0A 0x5C 0x3A 0x2C dsRecTypeStandard:Groups 4
RecordName Password PrimaryGroupID GroupMembership
The following is an example of a record encoded using the description:
students:Ad147:88:johnson,miller,clark,chen,wong