The wiki/blog server in Mac OS X Server is a boon for collaboration between groups with simple needs. It provides easy posting of text, images and other files on wikis and blogs. However, it has a few drawbacks. To improve security on the blogs and wikis, Apple set up filters to allow only a limited set of simple HTML tags in the user-generated content – the rest are automatically removed. For private servers, where the users are authenticated and trusted, this is needlessly limiting. Here’s how to disable that feature.

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I recently installed and configured GNU Mailman on Solaris 10 and found the documentation a little lacking, so here are a few tips that you may find useful.

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This is the third out of four articles on integrating Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) Server with an external, UNIX-based LDAP server in a way that the collaboration services — wikis, blogs and calendars — in Mac OSX are available for users and groups in the external LDAP directory as if they were native users.

The first article describes how to add the appropriate Apple LDAP schema to your external directory. The second article describes how to set up appropriate partitions (e.g., cn=config, ou=MacOSX…) in your external directory to hold data from the Apple server. This article tackles the augmentation of user records in the external directory so that OSX Server recognizes them as native users.

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Adding Leopard’s LDAP Container Objects to the UNIX LDAP Server

In the first article in this series, I described how to get the schema data out of Leopard and into a Sun ONE Directory Server. In this article, I’ll describe how to get the container objects out of Leopard’s LDAP server, and add them to the UNIX directory. These container objects will hopefully hold data relevant for assigning access to Apple’s Blog & Wiki server, among other things.

I say “hopefully” because I’m writing as I go, and I don’t know how it will turn out. However, given that others have had success at employing this method to get NFS automounting home directories working from Solaris LDAP, there is good reason to believe that it will work for other OSX services as well.

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