Stable, efficient, standards compliant, full featured. But I think you can run it on RedHat, CentOS or Oracle Linux. The product is referenced to in the Apple Training book “Mac OS X Directory Services v10.6”. I successfully build one myself as a pet project and configured it to authenticate our VPN users.
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The deluge of people having problem after a Migration of Windows Server or a version of Mac OS X was worrying also. Their virtualization requirements are not nice as well. I gave a long look to Active Directory, but I realized that besides costing a fortune, being able to do what I want with it would mean to modify the Schema, which is kinda iffy.
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That means that you have to upgrade your Open Directory master and every replica, at about the same time… You HAVE to upgrade every machine that is serving the Open Directory. Software upgrades and hardware upgrades basically asks you to bring the whole directory service down.
Unless you pay ludicrous amounts of money
When we replaced the production server by a shiny Intel Xserve, I did set up an Open Directory and it saved me an appreciable amount of time when the company began to grow.Īfter a few years, While I was happy of the choice I made, I realized that…. There was an Active Directory, but no Mac OS X machines was bound to it. When I first came in at my current work place, in 2007, there was no directory service for all the Macs I had to manage.
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