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Preface

About This Guide

This guide describes the directory services and

authentication services that Mac OS X Server can provide

to Mac OS X client computers.

Here is a summary of each chapter’s contents:

• Chapter 1, “Directory Service Concepts,” explains what directory domains are, how

they are used, and how they are organized. It also discusses how the discovery of

network services is integrated with directory services.

• Chapter 2, “Open Directory Search Policies,” describes search policies with one or

more directory domains, and describes automatic, custom, and local-only search

policies.

• Chapter 3, “User Authentication With Open Directory,” describes Open Directory

authentication, shadow and crypt passwords, Kerberos, LDAP bind, single signon,

and cached authentication for mobile accounts.

• Chapter 4, “Open Directory Planning,” helps you assess your directory domain needs,

estimate directory and authentication requirements, identify servers of hosting

shared domains, improve performance and redundancy, deal with replication in a

multi-building campus, and make your Open Directory services secure. This chapter

also introduces the tools you use to manage Open Directory services.

• Chapter 5, “Setting Up Open Directory Services,” tells you how to set the Open

Directory role of Mac OS X Server: standalone server, connected to a directory

system, Open Directory master, or Open Directory replica. This chapter also tells you

how to set some options of the LDAP service of an Open Directory master or replica

and explains how to migrate a directory domain from NetInfo to LDAP. This chapter

also tells you how to set up single signon and Kerberos authentication on an Open

Directory master.

• Chapter 6, “Managing User Authentication,” describes how to set password policies,

change a user’s password type, assign administrator rights for Open Directory

authentication, reset passwords of imported user accounts, and migrate passwords

to Open Directory authentication.

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