Many of you are aware that you can open Directory Access, click on the Server menu item, click Connect, and fill in the address, username, and password of an OS X Server and then make changes to the server's authentication settings as if you are at the console.
Custom AD add-ons continue! A script to manage who can log on to a machine. Ed. Note: It would be possible to do this with a loginwindow SACL on the local systems, but this login hook will match the local machine's hostname with a list of acceptable machines held in AD.
Here is a freebie application that mounts network home directories in an Open Directory environment. The program does a quick LDAP lookup and mounts the Volume. It also lets you specify a second mount volume for shared files.
In 10.3 and later, Macs bound to and and autheticating against AD kindly warn you when your password has expired and allow you to change it at the login screen.
Ed. Note: We've talked about redirecting parts of your home folder a number of times when dealing with AFP, but I don't think we've ever actually laid out how to do it. This collection of scripts makes it easy. If you manage an environment with lots of network home directory usage, then you need to check out Network Home Redirector.
No article I could find on the web touches the "PostgreSQL-PAM" topic specifically for Mac OS X users, so I decided to put all the pieces together.
A new Apple public mailing list is up, macosx-interop, for discussing the integration of Mac OS X and Mac OS X server into UNIX (all flavors) and Windows networks.
With all the issues related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy, and contracts being written to cover all losses and lawsuits related to any security breach in network setup these days, along with the desire for System…
We have quite a large turnover of staff, and over a period of time I noticed that once users accounts were deleted in WGM, (and indeed none functional), their mailboxes were still present and showing up in SA. There is a how-to floating about (url below) which will kill these mailboxes, but it seems it only works prior to deleting user in WGM.
I'm not sure if this is already known news but it was news to me when I discovered it a month ago. You CAN manage 'byhost' settings in 10.4. Read on for more...
