Retired Document
Important: Support for DirectoryService plug-ins has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
A new architecture was introduced in OS X v10.9 to allow the creation of native Open Directory modules. Unlike DirectoryService, opendirectoryd uses modules implemented as a standalone process that uses XPC to communicate with opendirectoryd. Implementing a module as an XPC service ensures a private address space and improves security and reliability, because modules cannot crash another module or opendirectoryd.
Authentication
If an Open Directory plug-in is going to support authentication, at minimum, it should support node native, change password, and set password as root methods. Other authentication methods are optional. It is up to the plug-in to determine which node native authentication allows cleartext authentication.
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