Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) - Manual (Page 122)

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Any user who has a user account in a directory domain can be made an administrator of
that domain.
You can control the extent to which a directory domain administrator can change account
data stored in a domain. For example, you may want to set up directory domain privileges so
that your network administrator can add and remove user accounts, but other users can
change the information for particular users. Or you may want different users to be able to
manage different groups.
When you assign directory domain administration privileges to a user, the user is added to
the admin group of the server on which the directory domain resides.
Password Server Administration
An administrator must be a Password Server administrator before he or she can manage
Password Server settings for users.
A Password Server administrator is a directory domain administrator for the directory
domain whose users have passwords managed by a Password Server. In addition, the
Password Server administrator’s password must be managed using that Password Server.
Home Directories
The location of a user’s home directory is stored in the user account. A home directory is a
folder where a user’s files and preferences are stored. Other users can see a user’s home
directory and read files in its Public folder, but they can’t (by default) access anything else in
that directory.
When you create a user in a directory domain on the network, you specify the location of the
user’s home directory on the network, and the location is stored in the user account and
used by various services, including the login window and Mac OS X managed user services.
Here are several examples of activities that use the location of the home directory:
m A user’s home directory is displayed when the user clicks Home in a Finder window or
chooses Home from the Finder’s Go menu.
m Home directories that are set up for mounting automatically in a network location, such
as /Network/Servers, appear in the Finder on the computer where the user logs in.
m System preferences and managed user settings for Mac OS X users are retrieved from
their home directories and used to set up their working environments when they log in.
Mail Settings
You can create a Mac OS X Server mail service account for a user by setting up mail settings
in the user’s account. To use the mail account, the user simply configures a mail client using
the user name, password, mail service, and mail protocol you specify in the mail settings.
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