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Re: NetInfo


  • Subject: Re: NetInfo
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:03:50 -0500

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:
>  The thing I disliked most about NetInfo Manager was its insistence on maintaining a database that was impossible to
> learn about.

NetInfo wasn't impossible to learn about.  Just well-hidden.  But the
whole point of it was the "Net" part.  You could have a single NetInfo
database shared by all your machines.  Create a user once, they can
log in anywhere.  When I was a sysadmin and we had a network of NeXTs,
this was quite handy.  And there were bridges so you could have
Netinfo and other network databases like NIS share data.

These days LDAP is taking over in that space, but it's nice that the
Directory Services on OS X are essentially agnostic about the
particular service you use.  NIS, LDAP; I think you can even still use
a remote NetInfo server, if you like.  It just doesn't use it locally
anymore.

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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