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8 Managing User and Group

Accounts

Use this chapter to learn the commands to set up and

manage user and group accounts.

With Mac OS X Server, you can quickly create and administer accounts for users and

groups. Several command-line tools are available to facilitate working with the

directory domains that hold these accounts.

User, Group, Computer, and Computer Group Accounts

You set up four kinds of accounts with Workgroup Manager: user accounts, group

accounts, computer accounts, and computer group accounts.

When you define a user’s account, you specify the information needed to prove the

user’s identity: user name, password, and user identification number (user ID). Other

information in a user’s account is needed by various services to determine what the

user is authorized to do and to personalize the user’s environment.

Along with accounts you create, Mac OS X Server has predefined user and group

accounts, some of which are reserved for use by Mac OS X.

Most users have an individual account used to authenticate them and control their

access to services. When you want to personalize a user’s environment, you define user,

group, or computer preferences for that user.

The term managed client or managed user designates a user who has administrator-

controlled preferences associated with his or her account. When a managed user logs

in, the preferences that take effect are a combination of the user’s preferences and

preferences set up for any workgroup or computer list he or she belongs to.

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