MacEnterprise.org Webcast July 17th 2007: Lithium
The next MacEnterprise.org webcast, Lithium, will take place on Tuesday, July 17th 2007 at 10:00am PDT.
Year: 2007
Elmer: Automated Deletion of Mobile ( Portable ) Accounts.
Clean up your PHDs and remove the trailer park of mobile homes you have lying around. If you run a lab that uses mobile accounts , one of the problems that probably you deal with is the rabbit droppings effect: where users create accounts in the local netinfo database on your lab machines by virtue of logging in.
Using serveradmin to backup and restore your configs
We all know about those little tear-off things in the bottom right hand corner of Server Admin, right? They're a very handy way of backing up your config before making a change. Just drag it off to your desktop, make your changes and if it all goes pear-shaped, just drag it back and sanity is restored.
Securing Communications with SSL/TLS: A High-Level Overview
Ed. Note: While some of the functionality mentioned in the articles below is available in the Certificate Assistant, which is part of Keychain Access, the articles will give you insight into what's going on behind the scenes.
HOWTO: prevent weak or undesirable passwords with weakpass_edit
Hidden deep in the bowels of the password server you will find some interesting, if seldom used, password policies that can be applied.
Quota Monitor Menu
Quota Monitor MenuBy Adam Gerson The Situation: You have a Mac OS X Server with network home directories and disk quotas enabled. The Problem: The Mac OS Finder on client machines does not have very good support for warning users they are approaching their file quota limit.
Active Directory Plug-in Tips
Some tips and information on the AD plugin. Read on for some ideas about setting up home directories and links to other resources.
Changing the root password from S.U.M.
I just finished up a small article on my companies new blog about gaining access to a server or client system via single user mode and resetting the root password without any deamons running using nicl. I provide a general outline of how the basics work for local account passwords as well.
MacEnterprise.org Webcast June 19th 2007: Intermapper
The next MacEnterprise.org webcast, Intermapper, will take place on Tuesday, June 19th 2007 at 10:00am PDT. In this webcast, join John Sutton from Dartware and Matt Federoff from Vail Unified School District as they discuss InterMapper.
Terminal Productivity Tips
There's no doubt that the Command Line Interface can be a powerful way to control any machine. Many also call it fast, which IMHO isn't always the case. Mundane tasks like changing directories and performing repetitive commands (as opposed to using keyboard shortcuts) and the lack of Undo/Redo can sometimes be anything but quick.