Using ACLs with WebDAV allows for much finer control. In the past, in order to allow a user access either access locally to their home directory or remotely via WebDAV the ownerships on the folders either had to be owned by the user themselves for local access or owned by www for remote access.
Managing Software Update with Open Directory is a nice feature of v10.4 Server, but trying to automate the delivery over those updates is a little cumbersome. Some users have set up a cron job to periodically execute the softwareupdate command-line utility.
The sudo (superuser do) command is a very useful and powerful part of the OS X unix underpinnings. It gives the ability for certain users to execute some or all commands as root while logging these activities providing a clear bread-trail of who did what to the machine.
Tiger includes a nicely-integrated Jabber server, but for those of us who have not yet upgraded, here's the trick to getting jabberd running on Panther.
It's been a few weeks since RAID Admin (hereon known as RA) and firmware 1.5 was released. Now seems like a good time to go through the options, both old and new, explain a bit about them, and then discuss the best way to update your firmware, along with *why* you might need to.
How to get greylisting working with the included Postfix SMTP server on OS X Server 10.4 Greylisting, if you've not encountered it before, is the process of temporarily rejecting e-mail from an unknown host/sender/recipient combination.
This is an updated to my article/instructions for making "Check Spelling" work in SquirrelMail.
Sherlock is back! If you remember back in the day when Apple was touting Sherlock indexing for webpages, this is for you. You can now do this with Spotlight, which should yield a more consistent experience.
When dealing with funky network issues it's handy to be able to tweak configd a bit to see what's going on.
This past weekend, I had my first request to set up a catch-all address for a domain in Tiger server. It's fairly simple, and it requires some command line interaction.
