Further Explorations

Several resources are available to help you deepen your understanding of directory services and the technologies behind Open Directory. These are:

  • Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration, by Michael Bartosh and Ryan Fass (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005)

  • Mac OS X Server Open Directory Administration, by Apple Computer; available at http://www.apple.com/macosx/server.

  • LDAP System Administration, by Gerald Carter (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2003)

  • Kerberos: The Definitive Guide, by Jason Garman (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2003)

  • Active Directory, Second Edition, by Robbie Allen, et al. (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2003)

Also, you may want to refer to the following manpages:

  • DirectoryService

  • netinfo

  • dscl

  • nicl

  • nidump

  • niload

  • fsck

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