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Re: OD or Netinfo?

On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:44 PM, <email@hidden> <email@hidden> wrote:

A consultant who is working on the server is setting up all the users
in Netinfo instead of using OD what are the advantages of doing this?

This doesn't seem right to me.

(in other words he authenticates to /Netinfo/defaultLocalnode)

I thought users and groups were supposed to be created in OD?

The answer to this is potentially lengthy, but the real answer is that NetInfo is deprecated for this purpose and you should be using "Open Directory" and all that means, including LDAPv3.

Apple's Server documentation (Open_Directory_v10.4.pdf - see http:// www.apple.com/server/documentation )
describes NetInfo as a "legacy directory." Of course it is used for standard, -local- accounts.

NetInfo will work but you will be losing alot of functionality.
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