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Appendix
Importing and Exporting
Account Information
Use Workgroup Manager to import and export accounts, or
use the dsimport command-line tool to import accounts.
You can quickly import or export user, group, computer, and computer group accounts
using Workgroup Manager. You can also use the dsimport command-line tool to import
user and group accounts.
Understanding What You Can Import and Export
You can import all record types that are tracked in Workgroup Manager. Common
record types include users, groups, computers, and computer groups. Starting with
Mac OS X Server v10.4, you can even import partial attributes of individual records, and
combine attributes from different records.
When importing from custom files, the only attribute a record must have is a record
name.
For a list of attributes, open Terminal and enter man DirectoryServiceAttributes.
Alternately, if you have Xcode installed, you can view a list of attributes with improved
formatting and more detailed descriptions by opening:
/System/Library/Frameworks/DirectoryService.framework/Headers/DirServicesConst.h
You can’t use an import file to change the following predefined users: daemon, root,
nobody, unknown, or www. In addition, you can’t use an import file to change the
following predefined groups: admin, bin, daemon, dialer, mail, network, nobody,
nogroup, operator, staff, sys, tty unknown, utmp, uucp, wheel, or www. However, you
can add users to the wheel and admin groups.
You can use the dsimport tool to import records from a text-delimited file.
For descriptions of common record types and attributes, see Open Directory
Administration. For a more complete list of attributes, enter man
DirectoryServiceAttributes
, or view the DirServicesConst.h file.