The purpose of the directory is to house user accounts. These accounts do not have to be used for authentication but we can use them for authentication. This may be for other CentOS or Linux systems as well as services such as Apache. We will now look at creating user accounts in the directory both from the command line and from the GUI console. If we start with the GUI console, we can create and export the user and reimport it from the command line.
We can log in to the console using the admin account as before. From the main welcome page, we should choose the Users and Groups tab and then, select the Search button. With nothing in the search dialog, the search will return all users, groups and containers. The container objects that we can see are organizational units; an organizational unit (OU) is a little like a folder within a filesystem. In the directory, OUs are used to organize objects. Navigating to the OU named "people...