Comments on: Running oidadmin on Mac OS X

By: Brian L.

Brian L. — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:32:29 +0000

John,

I look forward to hearing if it works and/or how much stuff it breaks!

Regards,
Brian

By: jpiwowar

jpiwowar — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:27:23 +0000

Hey Brian,

Thanks for the tip! I'll give this a whirl over the weekend. No worries about the Oracle support angle; my method's not supported either. And as you noted in your post (trackbacked/trackedback/meh below), it's not as if Oracle's going to great lengths to support the Mac as a platform.

Regards,

John P.

By: Brian L.

Brian L. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:57:17 +0000

If you don't like the processor overhead of running oidadmin inside of a VM, there IS a way to get it working natively on Mac OS X:

http://snappedshot.com/archives/3547-Ye-Tech-Working-with-Oracle-Internet-Directory...-on-a-Mac!.html

WARNING: Oracle won't support this method by any stretch of the imagination, but it DOES work. For me.

Regards,
Brian

By: Snapped Shot

Snapped Shot — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:57:05 +0000

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