Setting for Open Source directory service

[austin26]

Hello,
I all manage a small network at my work place.I want to know about the open source directory service.What it works? Is there is any setting required for that? an how to implement ? Any suggestion??

[Mr. Boo Bear]

The Open Directory architecture includes source code for both client access and Directory directory servers. Open Directory is the foundation of how Mac OS X accesses all configuration information of authority (users, groups, mounts, data handled by computer, etc..) Mac OS X obtains this information via the API of abstraction, allowing the use of virtually any system directory.
Directory service elements are available under the Apple Public Source License.A directory service is designed to bring all your personal identification and authentication into one easy to control the entity. The name pretty well describes what it does - it acts like a general "directory" that network elements can use to find information about people and things that use network.password we want to use the super user
• The name we use for the super-user
• Where different OpenLDAP files directly on the server
Before we start, we need to generate an encrypted password superuser. We must do this because the password is pasted into the configuration file - if you do not want to sit there like a string of plain text! Therefore we use the command slappasswd.

[Glenny]

A directory service is designed to bring all your personal identification and authentication into one easy to entity.Directory control services is an essential part of the Open Directory technology. Directory Services provides a client read / write / authentication API abstraction for accessing the directory based on data. Directory services consist of access to the API and API demon, and a plug-in API. The source code available on this site includes the following components.An additional element of the Open Directory is the existing component of Darwin lookupd that provides an abstraction for read-only access to all configuration information BSD. Both lookupd and Directory Services work collaboratively with each other via DSAgent provide reliable and consistent configuration for all processes running on Mac OS X regardless of the API directory they use. The source code is also available DSAgent.

[Zachary]

The common way for networked devices to access the directory service is to use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). LDAP is a standard, relatively simple mechanism that allows client devices to query a directory service, and any other device that is capable of integrating a database outside user is most likely to use LDAP to do so . Now, if you're a biggish organization that uses a kind of directory service already own (Microsoft Active Directory is the obvious one if you have Windows 2000 Server or WS2003) then you are generally able to talk to these services using LDAP as they are able to communicate this way. If you are not using a directory service, however, you are not blocked, you simply set up a central service using OpenLDAP, an open source LDAP directory service.