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What Is NetInfo?
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Each netinfod process manages interactions with a domain’s NetInfo database. Information
in a NetInfo database is organized into directories, which are specific categories of NetInfo
records, such as users, machines, and mounts. For example, the users directory contains a
record for each user defined in the domain. Here is the record for a user with the short name
“admin,” as viewed in NetInfo Manager:
Each record is a collection of properties. Each property has a key (listed in the Property
column) and one or more values (shown in the Value(s) column). The key is used by
processes to retrieve values. This user record, set up by defining the user with the Users &
Groups module of Server Admin, has properties that are used to authenticate the user and
locate the user’s home directory, which resides on a Mac OS X Server:
m
uid is the user ID of the user.
m
name is the short name.
m
realname is the user’s full name.
m
passwd is the user’s password, encrypted using a one-way encryption algorithm so that it
cannot be decrypted.