Is Apple Open Directory really used somewhere ?

[Francois Roulet]

We would like to deploy Apple’s Open Directory to manage our MacOS computer park.

We already have a custom built institutional meta-directory, which fills our OpenLDAP and Active Directory infrastructures.

We want to know if there is some university or enterprise already using Apple’s Open Directory.
We asked our local Apple vendors and support, but till now they were not of big help.

The goal for us is to manage about 2’000 MacOS hosts, 17’000 users and 2’000 user groups.
Ideally Open Directory should be put in parallel to our OpenLDAP and Active Directory, linked only to our meta-directory.

Another possibility would be to use a “magic triangle” as named by Apple, which makes MacOS machines to get informations from both Active Directory and Open Directory. But we think that such coupling between Active Directory and Open Directory will not be robust enough.

If you have such experience, or if you know someone who has some, please make me know.

Thank you very much !

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

[Greg Neagle]

Why not just use your OpenLDAP infrastructure? You can optionally extend the schema to add Apple-specific attributes.

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