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.
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.
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.
The MacEnterprise.org group will be presenting a Webcast on Centrify's DirectControl Active Directory integration product TODAY, Tuesday, October 25 at 1:00 pm EDT. David McNeely, a Director of Product Management at Centrify, will be presenting.
I had a powerbook that was upgraded to tiger. The problem was that after the upgrade it was unable to do proxy authentication with our squid proxy, which is bouncing against Active Directory for access to the web.
Since upgrading my OD master and replicas from 10.3.9 to 10.4.2, the Password Service pegs both processors on the OD master for 8-10 minutes whenever a password is changed. Doesn't matter whether the password is changed from WGM, terminal, or managed client.
Thursby's ADmitMac is a full-featured SMB/CIFS client that contains a lot of great features to hook Mac OS X into an Active Directory infrastructure. Be aware, though, that there is a downside involved. Thursby chose to implement a different method of handling resource forks on non-AFP filesystems than Apple uses in its samba-based SMB client.
I am part of a team designing the infrastructure for a 1:1 Laptop Program. We will have roughly 1,000 users, four different buildings, and mobile home directories. In addition, we will have several graphic labs (G5's), lit labs (eMacs), and libraries (iMacs).
Piecing together all the information in the tiger server docs is a pain. I created these two pages to show people how to setup Tiger server as an Open Directory Master and share out Home folders. Ed. Note: We have some more in-depth versions of this in our downloads section, but these are good overviews for the impatient.
One of the great gems of Apple Remote Desktop 2, and while it's not hidden in the documentation, no one seems to have sung its virtues - until now. Read on for more...
