Apple Training Series: Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1

Lesson 2. Accessing Local Directory Services

Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Understand the type of data stored in each of the BSD flat files and identify those used by the Open Directory plug-in Use Directory Access to configure Open Directory on a Mac OS X computer to retrieve user records from BSD flat files Modify data in the local NetInfo database with both Workgroup Manager and dscl Understand how the DirectoryService process on Mac OS X uses plug-ins to access system information Use the lookupd command-line tool to determine which agents, in what order, are used for a particular category of items List the local data stores that Open Directory uses on Mac OS X Use lookupd to search for different ...