dsutilities

The dsutilities project is intended to provide a suite of command line tools built around the Directory Services APIs (also known as Open Directory APIs). In particular, these tools will provide a way to configure Directory Services (functionality provided by the Directory Access application on Mac OS X), as well as work-alike replacements for the various NetInfo specific ni* tools.

Developers

• Jason Townsend <jtownsend _ opendarwin _ org>

Mailing list

The mailing list archives and subscription page can be access at http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/dsutilities

Tools

• dsconfig: provides similar functionality to Directory Access on Mac OS X. Allows listing, enabling, and disabling plug-ins as well as configuring plug-ins such as BSD and SMB.
• dsdump: similar to nidump. Prints out data from Directory Services in various standard formats usable as traditional /etc flat files.
• dsfind: similar to nifind. Indicates which directory nodes on the search policy contain a given record.
• dsreport: similar to nireport. Prints a tab delimited table of all records from a given directory node, with the specified list of attributes determining what is in each column.
• dsutil: similar to niutil. Allows reading and writing records and attributes.