Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 581)

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Glossary
This glossary defines terms and spells out abbreviations you may encounter while working
with online help or the “Mac OS X Server Administrator’s Guide.” References to terms
defined elsewhere in the glossary appear in italics.
A, B
administrator A user with server or directory domain administration privileges.
Administrators are always members of the predefined “admin” group.
administrator computer
A Mac OS X computer onto which you have installed the server
applications from the Mac OS X Server Admin CD.
AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) A client/server protocol used by Apple file service on
Macintosh-compatible computers to share files and network services. AFP uses TCP/IP and
other protocols to communicate between computers on a network.
authentication authority attribute
A value that identifies the password validation
scheme specified for a user and provides additional information as required.
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) The program included with Mac OS X Server
that implements DNS. The program is also called the name daemon, or named, when the
program is running.
boot ROM
Low-level instructions used by a computer in the first stages of starting up.
BSD (Berkeley System Distribution)
A version of UNIX on which Mac OS X software
is based.
C
canonical name The “real” name of a server when you’ve given it a “nickname” or alias.
For example, mail.apple.com might have a canonical name of MailSrv473.apple.com.