User Attributes, Format Sample values | Apple oxs specification

An example user account looks like this:

jim:Adl47E$:408:20:J. Smith, Jr.,

M.D.:/Network/Servers/somemac/Homes/jim:/bin/csh

When the first record in a character-delimited import file contains StandardGroupRecord, the following record description is assumed:

0x0A 0x5C 0x3A 0x2C DSRecTypeStandard:Groups 4

RecordName Password PrimaryGroupID GroupMembership

Here is an example of a record encoded using the description:

students:Ad147:88:jones,alonso,smith,wong

User Attributes

The following table lists standard XML data structures for attributes in user records.

A list of names associated with a user; the first is the user’s short name, which is also the name of the user’s home directory

Important: All attributes used for authentication must map to RecordName.

Format	Sample values
First	Dave
value: ASCII	David Mac
characters	DMacSmith
A–Z, a–z, 0–9,	Non-zero length, 1 to 16 values. Maximum 255 bytes
_,-	(85 triple-byte to 255 single-byte characters) per
Second value:	instance. First value must be 1 to 30 bytes for clients
UTF-8 Roman	using Macintosh Manager, or 1 to 8 bytes for clients
text	using Mac OS X version 10.1 and earlier.

UTF-8 text

David L. MacSmith, Jr.

A single name, usually the user’s full name; not used for authentication

Non-zero length, maximum 255 bytes (85 triple-byte to 255 single-byte characters).

UniqueID:	Signed 32-bit	Range is 100 to 2,147,483,648.
A unique user identifier, used	ASCII string of	Values below 100 are typically used for system
for access privilege	digits 0–9	accounts. Zero is reserved for use by the system.
management		Normally unique among entire population of users,
		but sometimes can be duplicated.
		Warning: A non-integer value is interpreted as 0,
		which is the UniqueID of the root user.

PrimaryGroupID:	Unsigned	Range is 1 to 2,147,483,648.
A user’s primary group	32-bit ASCII	Normally unique among entire population of group
association	string of digits	records. If blank, 20 is assumed.
	0–9

NFSHomeDirectory:	UTF-8 text	/Network/Servers/example/Users/
Local file system path to the		K-M/Tom King
user’s home directory		Non-zero length. Maximum 255 bytes.

Chapter 7 Working With Users and Groups