Contents

Introduction

Introduction 7

 

Organization of This Document 7

 

See Also 7

Chapter 1

Concepts 9

Open Directory Overview

9

Nodes 10

 

 

Search Policies and Search Nodes 12

Record Types 12

 

Standard Attribute Types 14

Native Attribute Types

15

Authentication

15

 

Directory Proxy

21

 

 

Open Directory, lookupd, and NetInfo

22

 

Directory Service Command Line Utility

24

 

Debugging 24

 

 

 

Chapter 2

Working with Nodes

25

 

 

Listing Registered Nodes

25

 

 

 

Finding a Node 27

 

 

 

 

Opening and Closing a Node

28

 

 

Authenticating a User to a Node 29

 

 

Directory Native Authentication 30

 

Chapter 3

Working with Records

33

 

 

Listing Records 33

 

 

 

 

Getting Information About a Record’s Attribute 35

 

Setting the Name of a Record

37

 

 

Creating a Record and Adding an Attribute 39

 

Deleting a Record 41

 

 

 

Document Revision History 43

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