Apple 10.5 Leapard manual Creating a Preset for Group Accounts, Editing Group Account Information

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You can also use a preset or an import file to create a group. For details, see “Creating a Preset for Group Accounts,” and the appendix, “Importing and Exporting

Account Information.”

From the Command Line

You can also create a group account using the dseditgroup command in Terminal. For more information, see the users and groups chapter of Command-Line Administration.

Creating a Preset for Group Accounts

You can use presets to apply predetermined settings to a new group account.

Presets are stored in the directory domain that you’re viewing. If you change directory domains, the presets you created in the other directory domain are not available.

For instructions on renaming, editing, or deleting group presets, see “Renaming Presets” on page 62, “Editing Presets” on page 62, and “Deleting a Preset” on page 63.

To create a preset for group accounts:

1In Workgroup Manager, click Accounts.

2Make sure the server is configured to access the Mac OS X directory domain or non- Apple LDAPv3 domain where the preset is used to create accounts.

3To create a preset using data in an existing group account, open the account; to create a preset from scratch, create a group account.

4Fill in the fields with values you want new groups to inherit and delete values you don’t want to specify in advance.

5Click Preferences, configure settings that you want the preset to define, and then click Accounts.

After configuring preference settings for a preset, you must return to the Accounts settings to save the preset.

6From the Presets pop-up menu, choose Save Preset, enter a name for the preset, and then click OK.

Editing Group Account Information

You can use Workgroup Manager to change a group account that resides in an Open Directory domain, the local directory domain, or other read/write directory domain.

To make changes to a group account:

1In Workgroup Manager, click Accounts.

2Make sure the directory services of the Mac OS X Server computer you’re using are configured to access the directory domain.

For instructions, see Open Directory Administration.

3Click the globe icon and choose the domain where the group account resides.

Chapter 5 Setting Up Group Accounts