This article will add to Rajeev Karamchedu’s excellent post, “Integrating Mac OS X into Unix LDAP Environment with NFS Home Directories”, only with Leopard Server instead of Tiger. My goals are a bit different from Rajeev’s: I am not interested in automounting home directories with NFS, but rather in augmenting UNIX accounts from Sun’s LDAP directory so that they can be used with Apple’s collaboration services. This information is also relevant for those who are looking for auto-mounting home directories, however.

Rajeev used Tiger server, which has a different apple.schema file from Leopard. It looks like he upgraded his Tiger server to Leopard instead of starting with a clean install of Leopard, so he may not have encountered the same obstacles as those of us who are starting from a non-upgraded Leopard server. The procedure is basically the same, but we need a new schema file (Leopard’s LDAP schema has an additional 400+ lines!), and we’ll need to add some missing attributes to it. Conveniently, I am also integrating with Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2. However, this methodology should apply equally to any LDAPv3 compliant directory server, such as OpenLDAP.

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