I noticed that my Open Directory server has three new groups in WGM,OD Users, OD Administators and com.apple.limited_admin. Should I treat these as I treated the other groups by assigning them members and group folders? I also noticed that now I have a System Administrator and a Directory Adminstrator, does that sound right? Should I keep both? Thanks
Xserve, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Using Open Directory and a secondHD
Hi
If I don't say stupid things, the System admin is a local one and the Directory admin is on the OD level.
If you check dscl hierarchy, you'll be abble to verify it.
So theses are 2 different users and both are needed.
For new groups, I don't see them on my server, but I'm not admin of the server, just admin of the OD, so they are maybe on the local branch.
Hope it helps
Bye
I guess I click on the option show system records and they came up. My next question is do we have to have the guest computer in the list of computers in WGM?
Ok, thanks, I had forgoten the "show system records" trick.
For the guest user, I don't see it in dscl.
So I suppose it's not a user, just an "anonymous" authentication option in the sharing preferences.
It's a bit like "others" in the posix rights permissions : User, group, other. User and group are existing and named, other are not named, it's just anybody that is not the named user and not a member of the named group.
To keep things understandable, you should use an other name if you wish to configure a "guest user"
You can manage the "enable guest account" option from WGM if you select a computergroup, in the preferences pane / login / options.
Hope it helps
Nicolas
The reason I am asking is because Open Directory service is giving me a misconfiguration error between the server and the guest computer, and probably this is why users are taking so long to log in. If the guest computer is not neccessary I would like to see if I can delete it to find out of the error continues.
Hi
Where did you see this guest account ?
I mean, is it existing in any local files like /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users on on an OD ldap entry ?
How many time do you need to login ?
What is this error message ?
Have you encrease the log level to see more deeply the problem ?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4696
You eventually should try to run a tcpdump session to capture what exactly happend
Bye
Three new groups in Open Directory Server
