Posts Tagged ‘Desktop Management

Disabling Automatic Updates for Office 2008, Apple Software Updates and Adobe CS4

Over at the Make Mac Work blog, Ellis has a very informative article about how to disable automatic update notifications for Apple Software Update, Microsoft Office 2008 and Adobe CS4.

Mac, Software, Software Packaging

Allow Non-Admin users to Manage Printers

Apple added a "feature" to Leopard which restricts non administrator users from managing printers on their Macs. While this is desired behavior on a public machine such as a classroom, it is a problem for single user machines such as faculty, staff and 1:1 deployments.

AD Integration, Automation, Desktop Management, Mac, Software, Software Packaging, Unix

Securing SSH on Mac OS X by limiting who can log in

This post will describe two different methods for securing SSH that work on both Tiger and Leopard (client or server). These tips can be done as needed on machines that will have ssh enabled, or as part of your deployment image(s). Personally, I make these changes to our images because if a machine is bound [...]

AD Integration, Hardware, Mac, Software, Unix

Adobe Flash 10 Installer launches Finder as root

Several web sites have begun requiring Flash 10 to play their content. This is partially because the PC version of Flash 9 had some security problems that I won’t get into here.
The good news:
Adobe provides their Mac version as a package installer.
The bad news:

LANDesk, Mac, Scripting, Software

Leopard – Keeping the Guest Account Disabled

Much has been said about the new Guest account in Leopard, and how it’s not as simple and secure as Apple makes it sound.
The Lame LeopardTuttle SVC
I think this is a good feature for what Apple probably intended, at home for friends and family members to “borrow” your Mac. But in a higher education environment, [...]

Desktop Management, Mac