For those who have yet to create one, here is a introductory guide on how to create an Adobe CS3 .pkg installer ( in lieu of the slient install ) with little to no fuss, and more importantly no real manual interaction with all the associated files.
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.
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.
Script to configure client mail settings So I thought I would post this before I grow too old and forget about it. I have been working on a command line based configuration script for Mail.app, it does some fancy things like create Mail bundles and Package installers for deployment,it still has a couple of bugs so use it wisely.
