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Chapter 15 Working with Open Directory 259
Additional Information About LDAP
The LDAP server in Mac OS X Server is based on OpenLDAP. Additional information
about OpenLDAP, including an administrator’s guide, is available at www.openldap.org.
Managing NetInfo
NetInfo is the built-in Mac OS X directory service used for the local directory domain on
every Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X computer. NetInfo stores information about users
and resources and makes it available to Mac OS X processes that want to use it.
Note: NetInfo may not be supported in future releases. Administrators should use dscl
and other tools that work on LDAP or NetInfo whenever possible.
Configuring NetInfo
You can use the following tools to manage the NetInfo directory. For more information
about a particular tool, see the related man page.
In addition, you can use the NeST tool to get and set authentication methods used by
Open Directory Password Server, as described in “Enabling or Disabling Authentication
Methods” on page 260.
Warning: Apple doesn’t support the OpenLDAP administrator’s guide, so you should
carefully test all procedures documented in it before using them on an Open
Directory server that’s in service.
Tool Used to
NeST Configure a NetInfo directory domain. There can actually be more
than one NetInfo directory domain on an upgraded server, and
NeST can also be used on a client computer’s NetInfo directory
domain.
nicl Create, view, and modify entries in the NetInfo directory.
nidomain Creates and destroys NetInfo directories. Tells you which domains
are served from which directories by servers running on a
particular computer.
nifind Search the NetInfo directory for a particular entry.
nigrep Search the NetInfo directory for all instances of a string you specify.
nidump Export NetInfo data to text or flat files.
niload Import flat files into the NetInfo directory.
nireport Print tables of NetInfo directory entries.
niutil Reads from a NetInfo directory and writes to one.