What You’ve Learned
• Directory services centralize system and network administration and simplify a user’s experience on the network.
• Open Directory is Apple’s extensible directory-services architecture.
• Directories store information in a specialized database that is optimized to handle a great many requests for information and to find and retrieve information quickly. Information may be stored in one directory or in several related directories.
• The Open Directory service uses OpenLDAP to provide the LDAP standard for directory access, enabling you to maintain information in a single location on the network rather than on each computer. It also uses Kerberos to provide secure authentication, and for those applications that do not yet use ...
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