Its a new year (coming) and it has been a long time since I did an update of OSXPASS. I hadn't made changes pre-Tiger hoping that Apple would come up with a solution and include it with Tiger. But, alas, that didn't happen.
The sudo (superuser do) command is a very useful and powerful part of the OS X unix underpinnings. It gives the ability for certain users to execute some or all commands as root while logging these activities providing a clear bread-trail of who did what to the machine.
The gist of it is this: there will be no Tiger edition of my book. The Panther version took me a year and a half to write. I've been working on the tiger version less than a year, and it was projected to be 30% longer. For some reason timelines this time around were shorter, and the choice came down to sacrificing depth or canceling the project.
Tiger includes a nicely-integrated Jabber server, but for those of us who have not yet upgraded, here's the trick to getting jabberd running on Panther.
I want to send an email to users letting them know that their password is about to expire (we have them set to expire after 30 days, so this happens frequently). Tinkering with our Tiger server, it seems that mkpassdb doesn't provide any useful data.
Some of you may be familiar with CMS solutions like Mambo and Joomla. Very cool, very easy to set up etc. Until you get to Tiger. Well go to do that on a Tiger Server and am running into an issue between PHP and MySQL. I can login into MySQL, create a database, assign privs etc.
Apple has put up a nice bit of documentation on their developer site on some the more advanced topics that systems administrator may be interested in. Topics covered include Kerberizing the Mac OS X VPN Server, Creating Mail Account Bundles, Setting Up a Network Library, Setting Up Key-Based SSH Login and Incorporating User Images in Open Directory.
It's been a few weeks since RAID Admin (hereon known as RA) and firmware 1.5 was released. Now seems like a good time to go through the options, both old and new, explain a bit about them, and then discuss the best way to update your firmware, along with *why* you might need to.
How to get greylisting working with the included Postfix SMTP server on OS X Server 10.4 Greylisting, if you've not encountered it before, is the process of temporarily rejecting e-mail from an unknown host/sender/recipient combination.
We've all seen the NAT tab on Server Admin, and been very impressed that we can do IP forwarding, or IP forwarding and NAT - but where to after that? Enter The NATural, an all new GUI tool that allows you to manage those NAT settings.
