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Workgroup Manager is an OS X Server application used for managing users on an open directory server. 

==Adding New Users==
[[Image:workgroup_manager.png|thumb|200px|Workgroup Manager Screenshot]]
To add a new user account first click the lock in the upper right hand corner and enter the directory admin account username and password (diradmin, password follows the normal system root password scheme). For the most part you just need to enter the user's name, login name and password. If you select "Template" in the Presets menu at the bottom of the screen most of the other settings you need will be automatically configured for you. Make sure to switch to the Home tab and click "Create Home Now" to create the user's home directory. 

Be aware that when adding a new user on the Mac system you will need to create a similar Linux user account on [[einstein]]. 

Before you create the account you need to locate an unused UID for the account. You should use a UID in a similar range to the existing UID numbers in order to avoid user's accounts conflicting with the UIDs of system built-in accounts. In order to find a usable UID number, login to [[Einstein]] and run the following command:

 $ getent passwd | awk -F ':' '{print $3}' | sort -nr | head -n 20

This will give you a list of the top 20 UIDs in descending order, which should look something like this (ignore the top ridiculously large UID, that's some weird thing Red Hat uses for NFS):

 4294967294
 5040
 5039
 5038
 5037
 5036
 5035
 5033
 5032
 5031
 5030
 5029
 5028
 5027
 5026
 5015
 5014
 4340
 4339
 4338

You want to select a UID one higher than the highest UID, or find a gap (like the one between 4340 and 5014) and use something in that range. Make sure to set the same username and UID for both the Mac and Linux LDAP accounts for the same user.