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

by Schoun Regan, - Ed.
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
18h 43m
English
Peachpit Press
Content preview from Apple Training Series: Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1

Lesson 3. Accessing Mac OS X Server Directory Services

Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Understand how data is structured and how entries are distinguished in an LDAP database

Use command-line and GUI tools to search for a specific entries in a given LDAP database

Use Directory Access to add a Mac OS X server providing directory services for user authentication

Troubleshoot problems with Open Directory records retrieved from an LDAP database

Interpret entries in a network user account to determine why a user is unable to log in correctly

Data is valuable only if it can be stored and accessed. With multiple vendors of directory services solutions competing for your business, you may worry that their ...

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