
Attribute
MCXFlags:
If present, MCXSettings is loaded; if absent, MCXSettings isn’t loaded; required for a managed user.
Format | Sample values |
MCXSettings: |
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A user’s managed | plist, single |
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preferences | value |
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AdminLimits |
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The privileges allowed by | plist, single |
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Workgroup Manager to a | value |
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user that can administer the |
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directory domain |
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Password: | UNIX crypt |
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The user’s password |
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Picture: | Maximum 32,676 bytes. | |
File path to a recognized |
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graphic file to be used as a |
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display picture for the user |
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Comment: | John is in charge of product | |
Any documentation you like |
| marketing. |
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UserShell: | Path name | /bin/tcsh |
The location of the default |
| /bin/sh |
shell for |
| None (this value prevents users with accounts in the |
interactions with the server |
| directory domain from accessing the server remotely |
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Authentication | ASCII text | Values describe the user’s authentication methods. |
Authority: |
| Can be multivalued (for example, basic and |
Describes the user’s |
| ShadowHash). |
authentication methods, |
| Each value has the format vers; tag; data (where vers |
such as Open Directory or |
| and data may be blank). |
crypt password; not required |
| Crypt password: ;basic; |
for a user with only a crypt |
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| Open Directory | |
password; absence of this |
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| authentication: ;ApplePasswordServer; HexID, server’s | |
attribute signifies legacy |
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| public key IPaddress:port | |
authentication (crypt with |
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| Shadow password (local directory domain | |
Authentication Manager, if |
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it’s available). |
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AuthenticationHint: | Your guess is as good as mine. | |
Text set by the user to be |
| Maximum 255 bytes. |
displayed as a password |
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reminder |
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