Re: Compatibility of database files between different versions of OpenLDAP

[Joe Rhodes <lists@joerhodes.com>]

Terrence:

If you download the OS X Server Manual from Apple's Web sight, they 
tell you how you can change what attributes and OS X client will look 
at for such an attribute.  So you really just need to find an unused 
one.  The trick is getting the right XML string in there.  I had it 
working for a while, but it took me a while to figure out.

If you look on any OS X machine, you should find Apple's schema files, 
since OS X comes with OpenLDAP standard.  Mine was in  
/etc/openldap/schema

Once you set up mappings on one client computer using Directory Access, 
you can "write to server" which basically just creates another OU where 
it stores that.  Then other OS X clients can just grab that mapping and 
go.

Cheers!
-Joe



On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 06:38  PM, Terrence Martin wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am getting my Macs to authenticate against my LDAP server and I am 
> wondering what schemas I should use for mapping the home directories?
>
> I have included all the base ones and I am successfully 
> authenticating. However I have noticed that MacOSX seems to want to 
> use an ou called mount for determining where the home directory is. i 
> was wondering what schemas people are using with MacOSX and openldap 
> to map home directories. I already have homeDirectory containing the 
> linux home dirs so I do not want to use that.
>
> Thanks
>
> Terrence
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