Re: [Q] NetInfo on Linux (Documentation?)

[S.J.Chun]

Thanks for your reply. Does the Darwin 7.01 have so called, "Open Directory", 
too ?
I am also much interested in it.

 Thanks.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de>
  To: Sungjin Chun <chunsj@embian.com>
  Cc: GNUstep <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
  Sent: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:29:45 +0200
  Subject: Re: [Q] NetInfo on Linux (Documentation?)

  Sungjin Chun <chunsj@embian.com> wrote on 12.04.2004 16:10:15:
  
  > Hi,
  > As some of you know, I am currently interested in Directory Service 
  > with GNUstep.
  > I found PADL's NetInfo for Linux and with some nodification, it runs. 
  > Is there any
  > howto alike documentation for NetInfo? In Apple's site, I found some 
  > man pages and
  > one PDF file but is not proper for me because it heavily uses its own 
  > GUI tools.
  > 
  > Thanks in advance.
  
  niutil is the way to go to use NetInfo w/o a GUI. niutil -h itself prints 
  a help message:
  
  localhost:~ root# niutil -h
  usage:
          niutil -create      [opts] <domain> <path>
          niutil -destroy     [opts] <domain> <path>
          niutil -createprop  [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey> [<val>...]
          niutil -appendprop  [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey> <val>...
          niutil -mergeprop   [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey> <val>...
          niutil -insertval   [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey> <val> <index>
          niutil -destroyprop [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey>...
          niutil -destroyval  [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey> <val>...
          niutil -renameprop  [opts] <domain> <path> <oldkey> <newkey>
          niutil -read        [opts] <domain> <path>
          niutil -list        [opts] <domain> <path> [<propkey>]
          niutil -readprop    [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey>
          niutil -readval     [opts] <domain> <path> <propkey> <index>
          niutil -rparent     [opts] <domain>
          niutil -resync      [opts] <domain>
          niutil -statistics  [opts] <domain>
          niutil -domainname  [opts] <domain>
  opts:
          -t              domain specified by <hostname>/<tag>
          -p              prompt for password
          -u <user>       authenticate as another user (implies -p)
          -P <password>   password supplied on command line (overrides -p)
          -T <timeout>    read & write timeout in seconds (default 30)
          -n              numeric output for -rparent
          -R              Retry operation if master is busy
  localhost:~ root#
  
  and there is also a man page for niutil (man niutil of course) but I can't 
  paste it here since I am at work currently and I only can ssh to my Darwin 
  machine at home and the ssh client here (putty) doesn't let me display the 
  whole man page at once so I can't copy it ...
  
  If you want to get hold of niutil go to 
  http://cvs.opendarwin.org/index.cgi/src/netinfo/tools/niutil/ or 
  
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3.3/netinfo-324.2.1/tools/niutil/
 
  (this requires a free registration, fear not, Apple doesn't spam you). If 
  you just want to try out niutil w/o porting it to Linux first just try 
  Darwin 7.0.1 
  http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/images/darwin-701.iso.gz 
  which runs on Mac and most of newer PCs as well.
  
  Good luck!
  
  > 
  > 
  > 
  
  regards, Lars