I have been designing and perfecting a new piece of free deployment software for Mac OS X. The program is called StarDeploy, it is easy to setup and use. All one needs is a network share and the client installed on a Mac.
Folks,Ok, so I've been quiet for a while, but here's a version of Policy Banner for Snow Leopard. <http://ps-enable.com/software/PolicyBannerPreLoginApp.dmg/view>Open source, MIT-licensed, go have fun with it. :-)--Paul
Mac OS X Server's adaptive firewall (afctl) does a good job of catching brute-force login attacks on most services, but it doesn't catch PPTP attacks. The script below checks the system log for such attacks, and then uses afctl to block offending hosts for a week (you can, of course, change the parameters if you wish).
If you're not familiar with the Pymacadmin project - you should be. Nigel Kersten and Chris Adams have created an awesome tool called crankd that will let you execute Python code or shell scripts in response to system events.What does this mean to you?Do you have laptop users that are bound to OD or AD?
A new release of libsrvrmgrd-osx is out which now includes Nagios plugins to monitor and restart (in the event of failure) the following services:AFP DHCP Directory Services DNS FTP Jabber Mail MySQL NAT Netboot NFS…
I usually get quite a lot of unsolicited feedback about Adobe's installers at MacWorld or WWDC (and even better, unguarded, feedback at the Thirsty Bear around closing time) but this year without an IT Track at WWDC (grrrr) I stayed home.
Whether you're a Mac Developer or Systems Admin, you've probably had to package up a bundle of files for deployment onto a number of machines. There are many ways to do this with just as many software options; it's easy to get confused and make some simple mistakes.
Well, everybody seems to be asking why the iPad can’t print files, yet.If you are looking for iPad printing solutions, you might have come across funny approaches like this one, but this article is about a serious solution.
Some tips on where the certificates you've set up with Server Admin are hiding on your system and the differences between 10.5 and 10.6 in this regard.Read on for where everything lives an what to do about it...
Migrating 10.5 iCal Server to 10.6 with group calendarsIn Mac OS X 10.5 Server, user and group calendars were available in iCal server. User calendars worked pretty well, but group calendars were a bit of a kludge. The biggest mess was the web calendar.
