Open Directory on a Mac
Apple's built-in LDAP / Kerberos directory · Identity & Accounts
Open Directory is macOS's built-in directory service — an LDAPv3 server (slapd) with Kerberos and a Password Server, used for centralized user accounts and authentication. It's not installed via Homebrew: enable and configure it with Directory Utility (or slapconfig). The value here is monitoring — FrontierStack health-checks the local LDAP service (process + port 389, LDAPS 636), and you can watch a remote Open Directory / LDAP server via the Remote Instance box below so Alerts fire if it goes down. Browse accounts in the Accounts pane (ldapsearch).
Run Open Directory with FrontierStack
FrontierStack lists Open Directory in its Identity & Accounts catalog. Install or connect it from one place, then monitor its status, ports and certificate, secure it with the firewall and Malware Audit, and back it up.
Run it all from one Mac app.
FrontierStack installs, monitors and secures the whole stack — locally and across your fleet — from a single native macOS app.
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