Mac Mgrs Mtg-2007.04.18-dscl

dscl - by James Reynolds A directory service is an application or set of applications that stores information about users and resources. Active Directory and LDAP are both examples of directory service applications. Mac OS X 10.4 (client and server) is configured to connect to a directory service via the application "/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access.app" (other versions of OS X may name the application differently). By default Mac OS X is runs a local directory service that is configured in the System Preferences Accounts pane on OS X client and in Workgroup Manager on OS X Server. The dscl utility allows a user to inspect and modify a directory. James will show how to connect to a directory service using Directory Access and how to inspect and modify the data in the directory using dscl.