Integrating OSX Clients with an OpenLDAP Directory

Posted on February 19, 2008. Filed under: Hosting, OSX, Servers, Xserve | Tags: , , , , , |

This is an article by Adam Shand  you can view the original article at http://www.spack.org/wiki/AppleOsxIntegrationWithOpenLdap.

Where I work is primarily a RedhatLinux shop, with a smattering of MicrosoftWindows, SgiIrix and Apple Osx. While we will remain primarily a Linux house for cost reasons, Apple Osx is becoming an increasingly important part of our corporate workflow due to our dependence on quicktime, the increasing number of applications available and the increasing preference of both our artists and IT staff.

Because we already had a huge Linux infrastructure built I didn’t want to mess about with Netinfo or using an OSX Server as a bridge between our Macs and our LdapAuthentication infrastructure. I wanted our Mac’s to play nicely in our existing world, this meant that authentication, naming (users, groups etc) and automount all had to work with as little fuss or differences as possible. (more…)

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