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?
Open Directory *includes* NetInfo. Just like it includes flat
files, Active Directory, NIS, and LDAP.
Where any one site chooses to place it's users is not a technical
matter but a cultural, religious or practical one.
And if you're not operating in a shared directory environment, or
you have nothing but local system users there's not much reason to
not use NetInfo if that's what youy prefer
At 7:18 PM -0500 1/17/07, david wrote:
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.
Again, Open Directory isn't a thing. It's a concept. It's a set of
directory services that can operate against a wide -- open -- array
of datastores.
I wasn't trying to be definitive. Please don't crucify me for
something I specifically did not say.
So the above comment is nonsensical.
Moreover "deprecated for this purpose"??? How odd you'd say this
yet *all* local system and admin accounts are stored where???
NetInfo. So it's hardly deprecated, there just may be better choices.
I never meant to say anything different.
At 9:36 PM -0800 1/17/07, Jose Hales-Garcia wrote:
NetInfo won't scale as well, won't be as secure, and won't
integrate with other Apple components as well OD.
NetInfo *does* scale. It does permit shared stores and
interoperability between systems in a domain based structure. Or
perhaps you missed the entire world of NeXTSTEP and Puma, Cheetah,
and Jaguar.
The OP should make sure his backup includes /var/backups should there
ever be any problems with NetInfo (it can and does happen), and the
problem is already present in the copy in /var/backups that gets
replaced nightly.
For 50 users, especially ones who have stand alone user machines
that don't authenticate against the server for their local logins,
NetInfo is probably a simple way to go.
It's one choice. I'll have a better perspective on the difference
when moving a server away from that number in NetInfo to "Open
Directory" (LDAP).
I'd be curious to hear input from others on the matter.
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