A
technology pioneered, or at least
in large part spearheaded by
Apple Computer in the late 1980s. It was created to work with originally with
large-scale NEXT install bases. It is a
unix administration tool that lets unix clients
propegate system settings and
user preferences for each
user off of a
master NetInfo Server. This is a
similar concept to the
Windows NT domain setup, except that is it quite difficult to configure.
Apple is heavily
pushing this
technology to its
OS X (non-server)
customers as a method of trimmed down unix administration, en masse. In the
OS X public beta, the
front end for this technology is greatly broken. The command-line tools, however work correctly.