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.
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.
10.4.9 brings some welcome improvements to rsync on OS X, but they might not be everything that you're looking for.An exhaustive look at what is and what doesn't seem to be working with rsync through various iterations of OS X 10.4.
So a few people on the macos-x-server mailing list noticed that recent versions of OS X Server seem to be building up large numbers of Disabled/Asleep connections on their AFP servers, even with appropriate disconnection settings when users don't have files open.
I've been dealing with a rack-mount KVM that refuses to sync properly with any generation of Xserve on reboot. While reboots aren't a common occurrence, I had a request to from The Powers That Be to "fix this". Since a regular display will sync correctly every time, I do blame the KVM.
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.
I wrote this script for a client for whom I had set up an iChat server last spring. They asked if it would be possible for the server, in addition to its standard functions, to also maintain a buddy group containing all their local accounts (a feature my wife calls a "persistent buddy list").
The Problem:While you can bind OS X computers to a Windows Domain, getting access to single sign on AD services in the process, there remains a weak link in that the CUPS smbspool process does not support Kerberos.
There's been a fair amount of discussion recently regarding filename renaming, and while this is indeed one of those things that there are as many ways to do as there are to skin a cat, here's an example of one way…
These are the final slides from James Turner, of CRYPTOCard, and Andrina's presentation at Macworld 2007. In the near future we're going to try and re-do the demos in Quicktime with commentary to go along with these slides.
