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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Changing Default Shell Post 302297796 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Sunday 15th of March 2009 03:10:49 PM
Old 03-15-2009
10.4.11 has support for the recent change to ds, or directory services commands that 10.5.x uses. 10.5 has no NetInfo support.

As a suggestion, you'll probably want to start using the ds commands going forward.

Some of the commands:
dscl . -list /Users
dscl . -read /Groups/admin
dscacheutil -flushcache
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dspluginhelperd(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					dspluginhelperd(8)

NAME
dspluginhelperd -- support daemon for legacy DirectoryService plugins SYNOPSIS
dspluginhelperd [-v] DESCRIPTION
DirectoryService has been replaced by opendirectoryd(8). dspluginhelperd provides support for 3rd party DirectoryService plugins. More information can be accessed from the Darwin Open Directory Page: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendirectory/ OPTIONS
The options are as follows: -v Display the release version. DIAGNOSTICS
See odutil(1) for information on enabling debug logging and various other options introspection of opendirectoryd. ERRORS
Error codes are available using dserr(1) or from framework headers <DirectoryService/DirServiceTypes.h>. DirectoryService.framework is dep- recated as of 10.6 and OpenDirectory.framework should be used instead. OPEN SOURCE
The source code for dspluginhelperd is available as part of Apple's Darwin open source initiative. dspluginhelperd is part of the Directory- Service project. More information on Darwin may be found on the Web at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendirectory/ DirectoryService API and Plug-in API are documented at http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/Networking/ The headers for the deprecated DirectoryService APIs can also be found in the following location: /System/Library/Frameworks/DirectoryService.framework/Headers/ FILES
/Library/DirectoryServices/PlugIns location of third party plugins SEE ALSO
opendirectoryd(8), odutil(1), DirectoryServiceAttributes(7), dscl(1), dsmemberutil(1), dscacheutil(1), dseditgroup(8), dsenableroot(8), dserr(8), pwpolicy(8) MacOSX Jun 23, 2010 MacOSX
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