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4 Setting Up User Accounts
This chapter tells you how to set up, edit, and manage user
accounts.
User accounts give users unique identities on your network and allow you to manage
those users.
You can use Workgroup Manager to view, create, edit, and delete user accounts.
To view user accounts in Workgroup Manager, click the Users button above the
accounts list.
About User Accounts
A user account stores data that Mac OS X Server uses to validate a user’s identity and
provide services to the user.
Where User Accounts Are Stored
User accounts, group accounts, computer accounts, and computer groups are stored in
a directory domain, available to any Mac OS X computer. A directory domain can reside
on a Mac OS X computer (for example, an Open Directory domain or other read/write
directory domain), or it can reside on a non-Apple server (for example, a non-Apple
LDAP or Active Directory server).
For Windows file service and other services, you can store user accounts in any
directory domain accessible from the server that needs to authenticate users for a
service.
If the user account is used for Windows domain login from a Windows computer, you
must store it in the LDAP directory of the Mac OS X Server that is the primary domain
controller (PDC), or in a copy of the LDAP directory on a backup domain controller
(BDC).