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11-23-2009

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I really wish there was an other option....

I am technically, TIS (technical information services) level II as my job title. What I actually do, is a plethora of things in a 1:1 deployment. I work for public education in a 1:1 macbook environment. Every high school student and teacher, as well as administrators and directors all have their own Macbook/Macbook Pro. I have 6,000 Macbooks, about 2,000+ Mac desktops, and 33 or so Xserves.

Now for all my responsibilities....

-Systems Administrator
-Network Administrator
-Directory Administrator (LDAP and Open Directory)
-Server Administrator
-Package creation and deployment
-Image creation and Deployment
-Casper Administrator
-End user support
-internal documentation and training
-Making very crappy developed products work on the Macs (mostly edu apps)
-stop the sky from falling
-Maintenance and repair on all that is Mac

So basically, whenever something needs to get fixed, pushed out, deployed, or created it generally falls in my lap. I also have to do end user support as well. The good news is, I am never bored since I do almost everything, the bad news is, I have to do everything. I do wish I could specialize in other things at times, but I do like the ability to have my hands in almost everything. To be honest, I like doing most things myself, that way it gets done my way and almost always right the first time.

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idmap_odsam

IDMAP_ODSAM(8)															    IDMAP_ODSAM(8)

NAME

       idmap_odsam - Open Directory ID mapping backend for winbindd

SYNOPSIS

       The  idmap_odsam plugin is the default backend used by Mac OS X for mapping SIDs and user and group IDs using Open Directory. It implements
       both the "idmap" and "idmap alloc" APIs.

       idmap_odsam should always be used in conjunction with the odsam passdb backend.

IDMAP OPTIONS

       odsam: msglevel = LEVEL
	      LEVEL is the integer log level at which idmap_odsam should emit log messages.  The lower LEVEL is, the more  verbose  the  log  mes-
	      sages.

       odsam: traceall = BOOL
	      If  this	is  true,  idmap_odsam will emit log messages for all Open Directory calls. If it is false (the default), it will only log
	      errors.

IDMAP ALLOC OPTIONS

       The idmap_odsam does not allocate any mappings. On Mac OS X, all SID mappings should be made by modifying the  appropriate  Open  Directory
       record.

EXAMPLES

	    [global]
		idmap domain = default
		idmap config default:default = yes
		idmap config default:backend = odsam

		idmap alloc backend = odsam

		passdb backend = odsam

		odsam: msglevel = 0    # Log at debugging levels
		odsam: traceall = no   # Do not trace Open Directory calls

BUGS

       Please report bugs to Apple.

SEE ALSO

       DirectoryService(8), smb.conf(5), winbindd(8)

																    IDMAP_ODSAM(8)