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.