Workgroup Manager and non-Apple LDAP directory

[jaharmi]

Has anyone used Workgroup Manager with a non-Apple LDAP directory? I want to be able to use an already-existing OpenLDAP directory to store the important information that Workgroup Manager is supposed to allow. (I haven’t seen or used WM yet.)

In particular, I want to make sure that existing LDAP user account entries map up to OS X users, and that policies (like password expiration/changing policies) can be enforced on OS X clients.

Does WM let me do this without having an actual Apple server running Open Directory?

And can WM be installed on a client/workstation machine, rather than just on Jaguar Server?

[ikellen]

10.2 supports LDAP or “Open Directory”, so try to see in “Connect to Server” if you can see the computer that is running openLDAP. If you can, there is a good chance that you can use that as an LDAP directory.

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