Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Server Essentials

Creating and Administering User and Administrator Server Accounts

A number of tools are available to create and administer user and group accounts. The Users & Groups system preference on Lion Server is just like the Users & Groups system preference for Lion—you use it to define local users and perform very basic administration of local groups. However, System Preferences does not have a remote mode; you have to use tools such as Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop to remotely administer System Preferences on a Lion Server.

This chapter focuses on using the Server app, Server Admin, and Workgroup Manager to remotely manage local user and group accounts, and to remotely manage access to the services Lion Server provides.

Like Lion, Lion Server ...