Specifications

“ Â Changing the Connection Settings for an LDAP Directory” on page 143
“ Â Changing the Security Policy for an LDAP Connection” on page 145
“ Â Conguring LDAP Searches and Mappings” on page 146
“ Â Setting Up Trusted Binding for an LDAP Directory” on page 149
“ Â Stopping Trusted Binding with an LDAP Directory” on page 150
“ Â Changing the Open/Close Timeout for an LDAP Connection” on page 151
“ Â Changing the Query Timeout for an LDAP Connection” on page 152
“ Â Changing the Rebind-Try Delay Time for an LDAP Connection” on page 152
“ Â Changing the Idle Timeout for an LDAP Connection” on page 15 3
“ Â Ignoring LDAP Server Referrals” on page 15 3
“ Â Authenticating an LDAP Connection” on page 154
“ Â Changing the Password Used for Authenticating an LDAP Connection” on page 155
“ Â Mapping Cong Record Attributes for LDAP Directories” on page 155
“ Â Editing RFC 2307 Mapping to Enable Creating Users” on page 155
“ Â Preparing a Read-Only LDAP Directory for Mac OS X” on page 15 7
“ Â Populating LDAP Directories with Data for Mac OS X” on page 15 7
Accessing LDAP Directories in Mail and Address Book
You can congure Mac OS X Mail, Address Book, and some similar applications to
access specic LDAP directories directly, without using Open Directory.
For more information, open Mail and choose Help > Mail Help or open Address Book
and choose Help > Address Book Help; then search for help on LDAP.
Showing or Hiding Congurations for LDAP Servers
You can show or hide a list of available congurations for accessing LDAP directories.
Each conguration species how Open Directory accesses an LDAP directory. When the
list is visible, you can change settings for each LDAP conguration that isn’t dimmed.
To show or hide available LDAP directory congurations:
1 Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
3 Click Login Options, then click Join or Edit.
4 Click Open Directory Utility.
5 If the lock icon is locked, unlock it by clicking it and entering the name and password
of an administrator.
6 Click Services.
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