Use LDAP instead of NetInfo on Jaguar

Aug 31, '02 08:15:48AM

Contributed by: NikWest

Ok, this is very cool (IMHO). So I am excited, because I have waited for this moment since the first release of OSX. Finally I got everything working to replace my network NetInfo with LDAP. The new Jaguar LDAP support is great. I just replaced my NetInfo network domain with a central LDAP server running OpenLDAP on Gentoo linux.

Additionally, I set up a DHCP server to serve the LDAP URL. With this setup, a Jaguar client will hook up to the network without any further work on the client required. All the network users, groups and shares are available.
This is a very nice out of the box experience. Getting there on the server side was a little harder, but with OSX Server it should be no pain at all.

Read the rest of the article for a short summary of what was done on the server side to get this working...

Server work:

Essentially that's it!

There is an OpenServer schema, which Apple is using under /etc -> openldap -> schema -> apple.schema. I had to modify it and remove all references to authAuthority to get it running. If you start a new ldap server, you might want to use this for a start.

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